Phasis

Reading notes

• The Heroides §6 the Phasis

  The river of Colchis, Medea's homeland.

• The Heroides §12 the water of Phasis

  The river of Colchis, whose water the Greek crew drank when they arrived.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.10 Phasis, once sought

  The Phasis in Colchis, goal of the Argonauts ('the Greek men'); another of the great rivers feeding the Euxine.

• Metamorphoses §7.156 the muddy Phasis

  The chief river of Colchis, flowing into the eastern Black Sea; the Argonauts' goal.