Ancient Pontic Greeks

Diogenes the Cynic (, ; ), also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Strabo (; ; 64 or 63 BC) was an ancient Greek geographer who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is best known for his work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime. Additionally, Strabo authored historical works, but only fragments and quotations of these survive in the writings of other authors.

ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC

Anatolian Christian theologian (c.85–c.160)

Christian Monk

Greek philosopher and astronomer (c.390–c.310 BC)

ancient Greek philosopher

king of Pontus

1st century Greek historian

Greek mystic and oracle (c. 105 – c. 170)

thumb|Portrait of the poet Diphilus, a Roman copy from the early 1st century

2nd century translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek

Queen consort of Armenia of Pontic origin

Sphaerus (, sometimes transliterated as Sphaeros;

thumb|upright|Targum from the 11th century Onkelos ( ʾunqəlōs), possibly identical to Aquila of Sinope, was a Roman national who converted to Judaism in Tannaic times ( 35–120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the Targum Onkelos ( 110 CE).

Greek prince and king of Bithynia

Greek ruler of Heraclea (c. 401–353 BC)

Roman Client Queen of Thrace (10 BC - AD 55)

Greek saint

Greek Peripatetic philosopher (c.350–c.275 BC)

Arcathias () was a Pontic prince of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry, and figure in the First Mithridatic War. Arcathias was a son of Mithridates VI of Pontus and his sister-wife Laodice.

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

ancient Greek general

wife of Mithridates VI

4th-century BC Greek philosopher

princess

general of Mithridates VI

ancient Armenian Christian martyr