Definition of Pontos

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea; father of Nereus.

Exact synonyms: Pontus
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Greek Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontos

Ponfick
Ponfick's shadow
Pong
Pongamia
Pongamia glabra
Ponka
Ponstel
Ponte 25 de Abril
Pontederia
Pontederia cordata
Pontederiaceae
Pontiac
Pontiac fever
Pontian
Pontic
Pontos
Pontus
Ponzi
Ponzi scam
Ponzi scams
Ponzi scheme
Ponzi schemes
Poo-Bah
Poo-Bahs
Poochie-fication
Pooecetes
Pooecetes gramineus
Pooh
Pooh-Bah

Literary usage of Pontos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"The author then turns to a similar situation at Herakleia (11.10a-l1): Similarly at Herakleia-on-pontos, when there was a democracy and the rich were ..."

2. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"The author then turns to a similar situation at Herakleia (11.10a-11): Similarly at Herakleia-on-pontos, when there was a democracy and the rich were ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The diocese of pontos, preserving the name of the kingdom of Mithridates, took in the lands on the Euxine, with the fluctuating Armenian possessions of Rome ..."

4. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1860)
"... URANOS AND ATTACKS pontos: END OF URANOS. (§§ 20, 21.) THE singular story of Uranos being deprived of his virility by Kronos in the thirty-second year ..."

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