Pharnaces I (Greek: Φαρνάκης; lived 2nd century BC) was the fifth king of Pontus. Of Persian and Greek ancestry, he was the son of King Mithridates III...

Pharnaces II of Pontus (Greek: Φαρνάκης; about 97–47 BC) was the king of the Bosporan Kingdom and Kingdom of Pontus until his death. He was a monarch...

with Pharnaces and how she reigned as Queen of Pontus. Honorific statues and inscriptions have survived that were dedicated to Nysa. Pharnaces set about...

a brother, Pharnaces I of Pontus, and a sister, Laodice. Mithridates IV is first mentioned in 179 BC, as he is associated with Pharnaces I in a treaty...

Pontus (Greek: Πόντος Pontos) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus in modern-day Turkey, and ruled by the Mithridatic...

the battle of the Granicus Pharnaces I of Pontus (fl. 2nd century BCE), first important ruler of the kingdom of Pontus Pharnaces II of Pontus (died 47 BCE)...

Laodice. By this wife, he had three children: Mithridates IV of Pontus, Pharnaces I of Pontus and Laodice. Hazel, John. Who's Who in the Greek World. "Mithridates...

nymphs of Mount Nysa who cared for and taught the infant Dionysus Nysa (wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus), daughter of Laodice IV and Antiochus, wife of Pharnaces...

Bithynia and Pontus (Latin: Provincia Bithynia et Pontus, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek: Επαρχία Βιθυνίας και Πόντου, romanized: Eparkhía Bithynías kai...

son of the former Pontic monarchs Pharnaces I of Pontus and his cousin-wife Nysa. His mother, Laodice VI, was a Seleucid princess and the daughter of the...