 Complete the following phrase:  Certainly influenced by Alexander the Great, Mithridates VI extended his propaganda from defender of Greece to the great liberator of the Greek world as war with the Roman Republic became inevitable. The Romans were easily translated into barbarians, in the same sense as the Persian Empire during the war with Persia in the first half of the 5th century BC and during Alexanders campaign. How many Greeks genuinely bought into this claim will never be known. It served its purpose; at least partially because of it, Mithridates VI was able to fight the 