The Battle of Halys, 82 BC ⚔️ | Second Mithridatic War

The battle of Halys was the culmination of many skirmishes between the Roman commander Murena and Pontic king Mithridates VI. Combined, these make the Second Mithridatic War.
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0:00 Introduction
0:51 Prelude to the Second Mithridatic War
4:45 Archelaus' Betrayal
8:23 The Battle of Halys
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Fox, Robin Lane. The classical world: An epic history of Greece and Rome. Penguin UK, 2006.
Kershaw, Stephen P. A Brief History of the Roman Empire. Hachette UK, 2013.
Levick, Barbara M. "Sulla's March on Rome in 88 BC." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte H. 4 (1982): 503-508.
Mayor, Adrienne. The poison king. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Matyszak, Philip. The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun. Thames & Hudson, 2013.
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Singor, H. W., and F. G. Naerebout. Oudheid. Ambo| Anthos, 2011.
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Looks like Mithradates decided to swap land doctrines.

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Thanks for noticing, I indeed tweaked the audio!

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[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

The Battle of Clontarf could use some coverage, is an important event that hardly gets covered in these parts.

[@HoH]

I considered covering it, but found out my friend HistoryMarche might be covering this topic relatively soon. The political machinations preceding the battle are incredibly complex, and I don't think I would be able to properly do it justice due to my limited knowledge of that era and region.

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The Battle of Halys or the Battle of "Ooops - maybe I should have stayed home after all"

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Nice video. Looks like this war was little more than some Roman Raids followed by a Roman Defeat.

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Unlikely that Pontus lost 160,000 soldiers due to lost battles. roman accounts probably made their armies look bigger to make their victory sound greater

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The crazy part after this is that Sulla awarded Murena a triumph to save face

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This was a great video, my only criticism is the volume of the music kept jumping up and down randomly.

[@HoH]

Yeah I noticed it as well. I am trying to fix it. I've recently adopted a new audio editing program and there are a few growing pains.

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Sulla gave archelaus PTSD from outmanouvering him so badly in the past so he defected to Rome this time.

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10:23 what background music are you using?

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Mithridates should haved led more of his campaigns

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Nice video. I am curious about this new army Mithridates created. So he revamped his cavalry and archers, but what did he use for heavy Infantry? Did he copy the Romans with some type of sword and shield infantry?

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Next war, 120,000 of them with some of whom made up from deserted Roman soldiers

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That would be speira pontikoi a copy of the roman heavy infantry which he will use in the 3rd mithridatic war

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Its also available in 77 BC Twilight of the Republic mod for Rome 1 Total war

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Can you do a series on the Caucasian campaign of Pompey during which Pompey will face king Artoces and he ruled the area that in the future would become the nation of Georgia and he was also an ally to king Mithridates the great of Pontus and this campaign was a consequence of the third mithridatic war and the campaign is also a part of the war but Pompey would also face off against the Kingdom of Caucasian Albania.

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[@HoH]

I tweaked the audio editing a little, thanks for noticing!

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I think it’s funny the historians that recorded, and lived at the time say there were say 100,000 enemy troops. Then the historians of alive today say no more then likely it was only 20-30,000 troops. I wonder what they base these figures on? Everything they know is from ANCIENT TEXTS, and writings! So how do they chose what was accurate and what wasn’t accurate then???? This is better then our palaeontologists that try to tell us how a megalodon looked, acted, lived, and died based on A TOOTH that they found! A TOOTH! Nothing else, just a tooth. They don’t even know most everything about a great white that they can actually see, and study! This will probably change in 50 years with the new generation of scientists too. You ever seen a big tailed sheep? They have a behind like a curvy Latino lady. There skeletons won’t show their fat behinds either. You ever compare a raptor or T-Rex skeletons t a kangaroos? They’re very similar. Maybe they hopped. That explains the large tail wouldn’t it.

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