Mithridates VI Eupator, ruler of Pontus and creator of the Black Sea state, was the last great king of the Hellenistic world, who stood in the way of the aggressive aspirations of the Roman Republic with arms in hand. Having hated this wolf tribe since childhood, Mithridates carried his hatred of Rome throughout his entire life and until his last day he dreamed of victory over his fierce enemy. The three wars he waged against these invaders finally changed the ancient world, and after that Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean region became unchallenged.