Colchis

Reading notes

• The Heroides §6 Colchian

  Of Colchis, Medea's eastern homeland; her 'Colchian poisons' have bewitched Jason.

• The Heroides §6 Colchis

  Medea's homeland at the far end of the Black Sea, which she forsook to follow Jason.

• The Heroides §12 Colchians

  The people of Colchis, Medea's homeland at the eastern edge of the Black Sea.

• The Heroides §12 forsaken Colchians

  Medea's abandoned countrymen, bidden ironically to 'rejoice' at her ruin.

• The Heroides §16 a Colchian hand

  Colchis, Medea's homeland, which took no vengeance on Thessaly.

• The Heroides §18 Colchis

  The far eastern land; Leander says Hero's lamp could lead him even there.

• The Heroides §19 Colchis

  Medea's homeland, which Jason entered and left with his prize.

• Metamorphoses §7.159 the Colchians marvel

  Colchis, the kingdom of Aeetes on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, famed as a land of sorcery.

• Metamorphoses §13.385 Colchian

  Colchis, the far land on the Black Sea, goal of the Argonauts.

• The Cure for Love §9 Phasian land

  Colchis on the river Phasis, Medea's homeland at the eastern edge of the Black Sea, byword for sorcery.