According to an honorific inscription dedicated to her in Athens in the late 1st century BC, her royal title was Queen Pythodoris Philometor (Greek: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ ΠΥΘΟΔΩΡΙΣ ΦΙΛΟΜΗΤΩΡ).
[citation needed] Her maternal grandparents were the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and Antonia Hybrida Minor.
[citation needed] The successive marriages of Pythodoris illustrate how elite women, like Rome's client states, were shuffled around in the game of power politics.
Pythodoris was able to retain Colchis and Cilicia but not the Bosporan Kingdom which was granted to her first husband's stepson, Aspurgus.
Strabo considered her to have a great capacity for business and that under Pythodoris' rule Pontus had flourished.