Zenon encouraged the locals to resist the Roman General Quintus Labienus and King Pacorus I of Parthia, when their armies invaded Syria and Anatolia.
Pontus | Mithridates VI of Pontus | Polemon | Mesembria (Pontus) | Stratonice of Pontus | Pontus Hultén | Pontus de Tyard | Polemon robustus | Polemon christyi | Pontus Norgren | Pontus Hulten | Pontus Gårdinger | Pontus and Sidonia | Polemon I of Pontus | Pharnaces II of Pontus | Laodice (wife of Mithridates II of Pontus) | Laodice (wife of Mithridates III of Pontus) | Ariobarzanes of Pontus |
They were among the Maeotic tribes whom King Polemon I of Pontus and the Bosporus, in the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus, attempted to subdue; however, they took him prisoner and put him to death.