place
Pontus Euxinus
the Black Sea
The Black Sea and its shores, ringed by Greek colonies despite its harsh climate.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Pontic shores
The shores of the Black Sea (Pontus), colonized by Achaean Greeks despite perpetual winter.
- Medea §40 Pontus
The Black Sea, on whose far (Colchian) shore Medea was born.
- Natural Questions §3.29.8 the Pontus
The Black Sea, named with the Propontis among the doomed distinctions.
- Natural Questions §4.2.29 the Pontus
The Black Sea, here flowing ever one way into the lower (Mediterranean) sea.
- The Trojan Women §1 Pontic
The Black Sea (Pontus); its shore is beaten by the husbandless squadrons of the Amazons.