2) Tyard, Pontus de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French poet of the Pleiade (see under Pleiad). The sonnets in his Erreurs amoureuses (3 vol., 1549-55) are imitative of Petrarch and are among the earliest written...

3) Pontus, in Greek religion and mythology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek religion and mythology, sea god. He was the son of Gaea and by her the father of Ceto, Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcus, and Eurybia....

4) Pontus Euxinus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pontus Euxinus, see Black Sea....

5) Arnoldson, Klas Pontus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Swedish journalist and peace advocate. His untiring efforts for peace were rewarded by the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Fredrik Bajer. A book he wrote...

6) Mithradates VI. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Black Sea coast beyond the Caucasus. The increasing importance of Rome in Asia Minor brought Mithradates and the republic into open conflict. The First Mithradatic...

7) Zela. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...There Mithradates VI defeated Triarius c.67 B.C., and in 47 B.C. Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces, king of Pontus, recording the victory in his famous dispatch "Veni,...

8) Paphlagonia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Asia Minor, between Bithynia and Pontus on the Black Sea coast, in modern Turkey. A mountainous district with the Halys as its chief river, Paphlagonia had a string...

9) Gaea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek religion and mythology, the earth, daughter of Chaos, both mother and wife of Uranus (the sky) and Pontus (the sea). Among Gaea's offspring by Uranus were the...

10) Pharnaces II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman civil war he overran Colchis and central Asia Minor. Julius Caesar came from Egypt and defeated (47 B.C.) him at Zela-with such ease that Caesar informed the...