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Comana in Pontus, located in modern-day Turkey, is a historically significant site that holds great importance in Greek mythology. The ancient city was the s...
The Diocese of Pontus (Latin: Dioecesis Pontica, Greek: Διοίκησις Πόντου/Ποντικῆς) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of northern and northeastern Asia Minor up to the border with the Sassanid Empire in Armenia. [1]
Another Comana, suffragan of Neocaesarea, was situated in Pontus Polemiacus; it had also a temple of Ma and was surnamed Hierocaesarea. It was captured by Sulla, 83 B.C. Six bishops are mentioned by Lequien (I, 517); the first is St. Alexander the Charcoal-Seller, consecrated by St. Gregory the Wonder-Worker.
This paper discusses several aspects of the civic and religious life of Comana Pontica, namely place names and rituals, such as the practice of ‘sacred prostitution’ (as described by Strabo), that still were kept in Roman times as part of a local Anatolian tradition.
The ethnarchy of Comana was a client-state of ancient Rome that lay between Pontus and Cappadocia. [1] It was based around the city of Comana, Pontus and surrounding territories south of the Black Sea.
The examples of the Roman imperial period indicate that Pontiei between the first and third centuries ce came from a variety of provinces, from Pliny’s Pontus et Bithynia as well as from Gregory’s Pontus Polemonianus.
