Born in 135 BCE, he ruled as the king of Pontus, a small province on the edge of the Black Sea in what is now northern Turkey. He is also known as the “poison king”—though not just because ...
Other sources claim that the Telchines are the children of the primordial gods Pontus and Gaia, the personifications of the sea and the earth, respectively. Still, others believe that Thalassa ...