place
Euxine Sea
the Euxine
also: Pontus Euxinus, Black Sea
The Black Sea, called 'Euxine' (hospitable) by euphemism; Ovid lived on its bleak left (western) shore.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.2 the Euxine strait
The Euxine (Black Sea); its 'Left' or western shore is the coast of Ovid's exile at Tomis.
- Sorrows §2.1 Euxine
The Black Sea ('the sinister Euxine'), on whose bleak western shore Tomis lies.