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the Proto-Indo-European *pont-eh1-, *pnt-h1, meaning . The name was also sometimes used to refer to the Black Sea.

Genealogy

Pontus is the Greek personification of the sea. He does not appear in any mythological stories, and in literature is attested solely in a genealogical context. In the Theogony of the poet Hesiod, who dates to the 8th or 7th century BC, Pontus

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