Pantagruelion » Mithridates http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp Notes upon the final four chapters of Rabelais’s Third Book of Pantagruel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mithridatum and the death of Mithridates http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/01/16/mithridatum-and-the-death-of-mithridates/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/01/16/mithridatum-and-the-death-of-mithridates/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:52:07 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/01/16/mithridatum-and-the-death-of-mithridates/ Mithridates as Hercules

The bust of Mithridates as Hercules is in the Louvre (Paris).

Encyclopaedia Romana: Compendium of quotes on Mithridates and his antidote to poison (thereiac): from Justin, Epitome (XXXVII.2); Celsus, De Medicina (V.23.3); Cassius Dio (XXXVII.13); Pliny (XXIX.24-25); and A. E. Houseman, “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff.”

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