founder of the kingdom of Pontus and the line of Pontic kings. Dueck, Daniela. Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome. Routledge. 2002:
from the related Massagetae of the Aral region and the Scythians of the Pontic steppes. These tribes spoke Iranian languages, and their chief occupation
Anthony Bryer, "Greeks and Türkmens: The Pontic Exception", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 29 (1975), p. 116f The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area p. 74