Sinope

Ionians founded Miletus, which, in turn, founded Sinope, which, eventually, colonized Trebizond.

In the Pontus, the language of the first Greek colonizers of Trebizond was the Ionic Greek of Sinope.

In a version by the playwright Carcinus, on the other hand, she sends the children away for safekeeping, and the fourth-century Diogenes of Sinope, best known for his founding of the school of Cynic philosophy, wrote a version in which her role as a sorceress was downplayed.

Diogenes himself was born a citizen of the Greek town of Sinope, in what is now coastal Turkey.

Diogenes of Sinope was said to have disavowed the culture of greed represented by his father, a minter of coins, and society at large.