This ruler’s grandfather Astyages (“ass-TYE-uh-jeez”) legendarily had two prophetic dreams about a flood and vines coming from his daughter predicting that this ruler would overthrow him. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this “great” ruler who overthrew the Median Kingdom to found the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
ANSWER: Cyrus the Great [or Cyrus II of Persia or Cyrus the Elder]
[10h] A prophetic dream also led Alexander the Great’s general Antigonus to try and kill a future king of this name. A different king of this name massacred Latin speakers in his kingdom in the Asiatic Vespers.
ANSWER: Mithridates [accept Mithridates the Great or Mithridates I or Mihrdad I or Mithridates I Ctistes or Mithradates VI Eupator or Mithridatic dynasty]
[10m] The Mithridatic dynasty ruled this ancient Hellenistic Black Sea Kingdom, which was conquered by the Roman Republic after a series of wars named for its longtime ruler Mithridates VI.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Pontus
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