Mithridates (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Racine
- First Published: 1673
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: First century
- Setting: Nymphée, on the Bosporus
- Principal Characters: Mithridates, Monime, Pharnace, Xiphares, Arbate, Phoedime, Arcas
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: History, Love or romance, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Brothers, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Tragedy, Greek or Roman times, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: Roman Empire, Rome, ancient, Ephesus, Asia Minor, ancient, Bosporus, Nymphée, ancient
The Story:
Mithridates, the Pontine king who had been fighting against the Romans for forty years, had just been defeated and was believed dead. Xiphares, the son who was, like his father, an enemy of Rome, deplored sincerely the loss of Mithridates. The other son, Pharnace, favorable to the Romans, was all the more pleased because he was in love with Monime, the old king’s betrothed; now he hoped to win her for himself.
Xiphares had told Arbate that he, Xiphares, had no claims to the states Pharnace was to inherit and that his brother’s feelings toward the Romans...
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