place
Maeotis
The cold northern sea (Sea of Azov), named among the waters that could not wash Hercules clean.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §1369 Maeotis
The cold northern sea, named among the waters that could not wash Hercules clean of his children's blood.
- Oedipus §467 Massagetes
A nomad people of the steppe who drank blood mixed with their milk; tamed by Bacchus.
- Oedipus §467 Maeotis
The Sea of Azov, washing the cold northern nations with its frozen waves.
- Oedipus §467 Geloni
A Scythian people of the far north, tamed by the god.
- Oedipus §504 Bear
The constellation of the Great Bear, which never sets into the sea.