place
Lake Maeotis
Maeotis
also: Sea of Azov
The marshy sea north of the Black Sea (modern Sea of Azov), a byword for the frozen far north.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.2 Maeotic shore
The shore of Lake Maeotis (the Sea of Azov), in the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea); setting of the Iphigenia-among-the-Tauri legend an old Getan tells Ovid.