Archelaus (general)

Archelaus ( Latin form: Archelaus ) was a commander of Mithridates VI. of Pontus.

Archelaus was a Cappadocian by birth and was BC sent in the first great war of Mithridates against the Romans 88 with a large fleet and a numerous army to Greece. He persuaded Athens and most Greek states, Achaeans, Spartan, Boeotian to Thessaly towards the waste of Rome. Sent against him then the Romans 87 BC Sulla to Greece, the Archelaus in Piraeus besieged and 86 BC, captured the port city, the fort Munychia, into which Archelaus had retired, could not take it. Only when Sulla Athens had taken to Archelaus turned to Boeotia. Sulla followed him and at Chaeronea it came in AD 86 to the battle in which the Romans were victorious. However, for lack of ships they could not prevent to trouble Greece coastal landscapes still Archelaus.

Soon Mithridates sent a new army of 80,000 men to Greece, which joined forces with Chalcis with Archelaus. Thus strengthened, moved this 85 BC at Orchomenus against the Romans, but was defeated here entirely in a two -day battle. Archelaus himself escaped to Chalcis. Mithridates decided now, during the winter of 85-84 by Archelaus to Sulla Delion in Boeotia to negotiate about peace, which was then 84 also completed. Archelaus was because of this peace with Mithridates in disgrace and fled when the Second Mithridatische war broke out (81 BC) to the Romans, in whose interest he was still 74 BC.

• Military person ( ancient Greece )
• Greek ( Ancient )
• Man
• Born in the 2nd century BC
• Died in the 1st century BC