Show Notes
Mithridates has claimed his throne, built a reputation for being remarkably difficult to poison, and made himself one of Rome’s most determined enemies. Now the Romans are coming to deal with him.
In the second half of our mad honey story, we follow the Poison King through decades of warfare, meet the mountain tribes who prepared a rather unusual welcome for Rome’s soldiers, and discover how a few bowls of roadside honey became a devastating military trap.
And for Mithridates, a lifetime spent trying to make himself impossible to poison is about to have one final, deeply inconvenient consequence.
This is part two of our story. If you haven’t listened to Mad Honey and the Poison King (Part 1), start there.
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