Inadze, "[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [t'erminebi k'olxi da k'olxeti ant'ik'ur mts'erlobasi; 'The Terms "Colchians" and "
Colchis" in Classical Sources']," 43-55; V.
To undertake his dangerous task, Jason gathered about fifty heroes and sailed to
Colchis. Jason's companions were called Argonauts after their ship, the Argo.
(19.) Although he expected to regain both upon his return to Iolcus, Medea cannot know that this will definitively occur at the time she agrees to leave
Colchis with him.
Before blaming his son's lust on his maternal and Amazonian roots, Theseus first suggests Medea's home, "Colchian Phasis" (the only other mention of
Colchis in the play), as the kind of wild, un-Greek land that could generate such savagery (906-8, 926-9):
In Theocritus 13, Hercules again gets separated from the Argonauts, but completes the journey to
Colchis on foot.
Colchos (or
Colchis; modern Georgia) was a barbarian (i.e., non-Greek) kingdom on the eastern coast of the Black Sea where Jason ventured to retrieve the Fleece.
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However, by mentioning the flames of
Colchis as well as Iolcos and Hiberia, Horace wants to distance his audience from the nefarious reality of magic, by taking them into a literary and exotic dimension, (34) connected with the figure of Medea.
(1) The episode is a key component in the story of Jason and the Argonauts, because it explains why Heracles was not present when they reached
Colchis and successfully (with Medea's help) captured the Golden Fleece.
Strabo left us a detailed description of
Colchis, and Alexandre Dumas makes reference to it this way: "The silver tops of the double Caucasian chain still shone in the sky, like petrified clouds."
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