Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te hotoke o te 48/47 BC, i raro a Julius Caesar i
te whakapae i Alexandria e nga ope a Achillas, kaitiaki me te rangatira mo te Kingi Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator. I whakaarahia e Mithridates he ope, a ka haere mai ki te whakaora i a Hihara. I muri i te Pakanga o Zela, ka meinga ia e Hihara hei kingi o te Kingi o Bosporan. Ko Dynamis te tuahine o Mithridates me tana tahu ko Asander nga rangatira rangatira i taua wa, a i hinga e te ope a Mithridates.