Adobogiona the Elder

Adobogiona
Born	c. 90 BC
Died	c. 50 BC
Spouse	Menodotus
Issue	Mithridates I of the Bosporus
Father	Deiotarus

Adobogiona (fl. c. 90 BC - c. 50 BC) was a Galatian princess from Anatolia. She was the daughter of a Celtic noble named Deiotarus and sister to Brogitarus from the Tolistobogii tribe. Her cousin was the tetrarch Deiotarus Philoromaios, a Roman client king of Galatia, who had a daughter of the same name.

Adobogiona married a wealthy patrician citizen from Pergamon called Menodotus. At some point, Adobogiona was rescued from poisoning at a banquet and became a mistress to King Mithridates VI of Pontus. Adobogiona bore Mithridates VI two children: a son called Mithridates of Pergamon and a daughter called Adobogiona the Younger.

References

• 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
• Ton Derks/Nico Roymans, Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity: The Role of Power and Tradition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, p. 137.