WI Mithradates VI Eupator King of Pontus successfully retakes Greece from Rome

In otl many consider Mithradates as the second Hannibal. He came to power after overthrowing his mother and started the great Mithradic wars. He defeated the Romans and conquered Asia, as well as getting most of Greece form an alliance under his banner to oppose the Romans. In OTL he was defeated in Greece by Sulla and 5 legions, but always escaped. He also escaped om Pompeii and dealt many defeats to the Romans. SO WI he and the Grecian alliance successfully defeat the Romans. How would events in the ancient world play out.
For those who don't know him here is some links:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/386057/Mithradates-VI-Eupator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus

So what happens to the history of antiquity.
 
1) I don't think that Mithridates could unify the greek world, at least not after his death. Too many different interests, and Rome would finally conquer Greece, but more later. Maybe not as provinces, but as client states.

2)Pompeius fame is butterflied. So maybe no triumvirate, but Caesar won't manage to become dictator, so maybe longer lifespan for Roman Republic.
 
Well, maybe if Rome was engulfed in a more devastating civil war, maybe Mithradates could have a possibility... But control of all Greece? Even if he succeded, in the end the various city-states will slip away from its control...

Generally, i guess he could unificated Anatolia and Thrace, but Greece was his ruin IMO.
 
MAybe if Mithradites siege against Rhodes is successfull before he gets to Greece he will be able to maintain naval dominance for longer.
 
Wow that sentence is atrocious, what I meant to write was: Maybe if Mithradite's siege against Rhodes in 89 BC, (before he occupied Athens, Archaeia and Euboriai) he was foiled at the walls of Rhodes when his huge floating siege engine collapsed. Rhodes was where many of the Romans who escaped Anatolia fled to, including Lucius Cassius Proconsul of Asia. If Mithradites captured Rhodes many shipyards and skilled greek sailors would be under his control. Sulla would be unsupplied during his winter siege of Athens.

Lucius Cassius was also the man who later contacted the Ptolemys of Egypt and won them into an alliance against Mithradites. If he is taken out of the picture Rome would be quite weakened.

Mithradites could probably hold onto Greece, and push into Roman Macedonia.
 
I think the main chance for a serious Pontic hold on Greece was smashed at Chaeronea. If you can turn that battle into a Pontic victory, they have a good chance of holding it for at least a while. The problem is actually winning it though. Although the Pontic forces far outnumbered the Roman forces (and had alot of veterans in the ranks), they were horrifically unsuited to fighting Roman legions, espeically when led by a commander of Sulla's caliber. Prehaps if Archelaus fights in open ground, giving his cavalry more room to manuver and his phalanxes more even terrain so their formations are not disrupted. But even if a victory is gained this way, Pontus needs to stop being so reliant on phalanxes and use theurophoroi more like they did in the 3rd Mithridatic war, and they are less likely to do this if their Phalanxes win at Chaeronea.
 
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