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Monime, sometimes known as Monima (Greek: Μονίμη; died 72/71 BC), was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman from Anatolia and one of the wives of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

According to the ancient sources she was a citizen of either Miletus or Stratonicea, Caria. Monime was the daughter of a prominent citizen called Philopoemen. Monime was a beautiful, intelligent woman and was much talked about among the Greeks.

When King Mithridates VI of Pontus and his army successfully captured her native city in 89/88 BC, her beauty made a great impression on Mithridates VI. He was strongly drawn to her, as he was attracted to powerful personalities whose intelligence complemented his. Mithridates VI thought of making Monime the jewel of his harem, and began negotiations with Philopoemen. Mithridates VI offered him 1500 gold pieces. Monime rejected the offer and held out for more. Monime demanded from Mithridates VI a marriage contract and insisted that he give her a royal Diadem and the title of Queen. Because he found Monime irresistible, Mithridates VI agreed.

The royal scribes prepared the marriage contract. Mithridates VI tied a purple and gold ribbon around the head of Monime, the pair withdrew to the private rooms of the palace at Sinope. They married in 89/88 BC and through her marriage to Mithridates VI, Monime became his second wife and Queen of Pontus. Her father received his gold from Mithridates VI and was appointed overseer in Ephesus. Monime bore Mithridates VI a child, a daughter called Athenais.

In the beginning of their marriage, she exercised great influence over her husband; however this did not last long. In the end they had an unhappy marriage and he later became dissatisfied with her. Monime later repented her marriage to Mithridates VI, her elevation, and leaving her native city.

In 72/71 BC, when her husband was compelled to abandon his dominions and took refuge in the Kingdom of Armenia, Monime was put to death at Pharnacia. Her correspondence to Mithridates VI, which was of a licentious character, fell into the hands of Roman General Pompey at the capture of the fortress at Caenon Phrourion.

Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator (Ancient Greek: Μιθριδάτης; 135–63 BC) sometimes known as Mithridates the Great was the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's most formidable and determined opponents. He sought to dominate Asia Minor and the Black Sea region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars to break Roman dominion over Asia and the Hellenic world.

Following the assassination of his father Mithridates V Euergetes, the teenage Mithridates ascended to the throne under the regency of her mother Laodice VI. In 113 BC he overthrew his mother and ruled alone thereafter. Aiming to elevate Pontus to the status of a major power, Mithridates subjugated Colchis and the Cimmerian Bosporus on the Black Sea, but his expansion westwards into Asia Minor made conflict with Rome inevitable. In 89 BC, spurred by his Roman allies, Nicomedes IV of Bithynia invaded Pontus. Mithridates defeated him and, taking advantage of Rome's preoccupation with the Social War, overran Roman Asia and orchestrated large-scale massacres of Romans and Italians in the region. Positioning himself as a champion of Hellenism, he brought much of mainland Greece (including Athens) to his side.

The Romans eventually responded when Lucius Cornelius Sulla, despite having been declared a public enemy, proceeded with his plan to defeat Mithridates. In the first of the Mithridatic Wars, Sulla achieved a string of victories over the Pontic forces, but factional struggle back in Rome forced him to offer a generous peace to Mithridates, restoring the situation to its pre-89 BC state. In 83 BC, the Roman legate Lucius Licinius Murena attacked Mithridates, provoking the Second Mithridatic War. Mithridates defeated him, and peace was again declared.

The Third Mithridatic War broke out in 73 BC when Nicomedes IV died without an heir and bequeathed Bithynia to Rome, prompting an invasion by Mithridates. He was routed by the legions of Lucullus and fled to his ally, Tigranes II of Armenia. In 67 BC, Mithridates retook Pontus after inflicting a major defeat on the Romans at Zela. His victory proved short-lived, and he was decisively defeated by Pompey at the Battle of the Lycus in 66 BC. Mithridates fled to Crimea, took over the Bosporan Kingdom and was preparing another war against Rome when his son Pharnaces rebelled against him. He retreated to Panticapaeum, where he committed suicide.