Adobogiona (approximately 80 - 50 BC) is a Galatian princess from Anatolia. She was the daughter of the ruler of Galatia Deyotara and sister Brogitar .
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She was married to a patrician from Pergamum Menodot. Avoiding poisoning at the banquet, she became the concubine of Tsar Pontus Mithridates VI .
Adobogion gave birth to the king the son of Mithridates I of Bosporus . In honor of the beloved woman of the ruler, laudatory inscriptions found on the island of Lesbos were created, as well as her bust, discovered in Pergamum.
Literature
- S. Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men and Gods in Asia Minor , Vol. I (1956).
- A. Mayor, “The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-12683-8