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The roots of the Greek presence in the Black Sea are steeped in myth: from the journey of Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis, to the Amazons.

He was delighted, seized his bow and quiver, and swept down from Olympus through the vast expanse of air to Colchis.

Others will recall that Circe — Medea’s aunt, the sister of her father, Aeetes — cleansed Medea and Jason of their crimes, as they fled Colchis with the Golden Fleece and murdered Medea’s brother.

The witch Medea was the princess of Colchis, on the eastern edge of the Black Sea, which to the notoriously xenophobic ancient Greeks was alien and suspect.

They had a sweet ride made of bronze and iron—eyen the horses, which were magical automatons like the Colchis bulls.