- Information
- region on the Black Sea
- Identified with
- 🌍 Aia (unlocatable)
- Cult site of
- 👤 Ares 👤 Zeus 👤 Hecate (goddess) 👤 Phrixos (s. of Athamas) 👤 Leucothea (goddess) 👤 Helios
- Place of birth of
- 👥 the Spartoi of Colchis
- Place of death of
- 👤 Apsyrtos 👤 Perses (Colchian) 👤 the Golden Ram 👤 the Serpent of Colchis 👥 the Spartoi of Colchis
- Settled by
- 👤 Ialmenos
- Settled from
- 🌍 Orchomenos (Boiotia)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Aietes
- Conquered by
- 👤 Perses (Colchian)
- Encompases
- 🌍 the Grove of Ares at Colchis 🌍 Sybaris (Colchis) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Helios at Colchis 🏛️ the Temple of Hecate at Colchis 🏛️ the Altar of Zeus in Colchis 🌍 the Sanctuary of Leucothea at Colchis
- Related Entities
- 👤 Aietes 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Apsyrtos 👤 Ares 🏺 the Argo 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Argos (s. of Phrixos) 👤 Athena 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Chalciope (Colchian) 👤 Circe 👥 the Corybantes 👤 Cytisoros 👤 Cyzicos 👤 Hera 👤 Zeus 👤 Heracles 👤 Ialmenos 👤 Idmon (Argonaut) 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 🌍 Corinth (Argolid) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Theseus 👤 Peleus 👤 Pelias (Thessalian) 🏺 the Golden Fleece 👤 Hecate (goddess) 👤 Perses (Colchian) 👤 Phineus (Thracian) 👤 Phrixos (s. of Athamas) 👤 Phrontis (Colchian) 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Leucothea (goddess) 👤 Medeia 👤 Melas (Colchian) 🌍 the Symplegades 🌍 the Planctai 👤 the Golden Ram 🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 👤 Helios 🌍 Mysia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Opountian Locris 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 the Bosporos 🌍 Libya (region) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Orchomenos (Boiotia) 🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos) 🌍 the Hellespont 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 Aiaia (unlocatable) 🌍 Thessaly 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 the Island of the Sirens (unlocatable) 🌍 the Promontory of Scylla (unlocatable) 🌍 the Promontory of Charybdis (unlocatable) 🌍 Thrinacia (island) 👤 the Serpent of Colchis 🌍 Doliones (Pontos) 🌍 Aphetai (Thessaly) 🌍 Bebryces (Bithynia) 🌍 Salmydessos (Thrace) 🌍 Mariandynoi (Pontos) 🌍 River Phasis (Colchis) 👥 the Bronze-Footed Bulls of Aietes 🏺 the Teeth of the Serpent of Ares 👥 the Spartoi of Colchis 🌍 the Apsyrtides (islands) 🌍 Corcyra (island) 🌍 the Ceraunian Mountains (N. Greece) 🌍 Anaphe (island) 🌍 the Ligurian Sea 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 Media 🌍 Italy 🌍 the Black Sea 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 👤 Presbon (s. of Phrixos) 🏺 the Cult Statue of Ares Theritas 👤 Laphystios 🌍 Mount Laphystios (Boiotia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Ares Theritas near Therapne (Laconia) 🌍 Pagasai (Thessaly) 👤 Eurylyte 🏺 the Golden Statue of Fleece (rat. Golden Fleece) 🌍 Amantia 🌍 Cyzicos (Mysia) 🌍 the Brow of the Ram (Pontos) 🌍 Armenia 🌍 Argoon (Aithalia) 🌍 Pola (Illyria) 🌍 the Adriatic Sea 🌍 the Cyaneai (islands) 🌍 Aia (unlocatable) 👤 Cios
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.16 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.19 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.21 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.23 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.25 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.28 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 877-908 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1011-1026 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1309-1321 📖 Pausanias 3.19.7 📖 Pausanias 1.24.2 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 29.3 📖 Homer, Odyssey 12.36-12.141 📖 Euripides, Medeia 1-35 📖 Euripides, Medeia 160-210 📖 Euripides, Medeia 465-490 📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 487-490 📖 Pausanias 9.34.6-9.34.10 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.17-1.9.23 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.24-1.9.26 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 992-1002 📖 Strabo 9.2.42 📖 Hesiod, Aigimius fr. 236 Most 📖 Eumelos, Corinthiaca fr. 17 West 📖 Naupactica fr. 6, 7 West 📖 Naupactica fr. 8 West 📖 Heracleitos, On Unbelievable Stories 24 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 30 📖 Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 3 📖 Lucian, Toxaris, or Friendship 1-7 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 7c Harder 📖 Scholia on Callimachus, Aetia fr. 21b Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 11 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 12 Harder 📖 Lucian, The Dance 51-53 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 1-63 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 124-168 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 203-246 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 247-262 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 14 📖 Euripides, Medeia 421-438 📖 Pindar fr. 172 Snell-Maehler 📖 Pomponius Mela 2.44 📖 Pomponius Mela 2.57 📖 Pomponius Mela 1.98 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 7.86 📖 Pomponius Mela 1.108 📖 Strabo 9.5.15 📖 Strabo 10.3.19-10.3.20 📖 Strabo 1.1.10 📖 Strabo 1.2.10 📖 Strabo 1.2.38-1.2.40 📖 Strabo 1.3.2 📖 Strabo 1.3.15 📖 Strabo 12.4.3 📖 Ovid, Amores 2.14 📖 Strabo 5.1.9 📖 Strabo 5.2.6 📖 Vergil, Georgics 2.140-2.154 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 8 Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 9 Harder
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Naupactica Dionysios, Periegesis Hesiod, Theogony Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Plutarch, Theseus Eumelos, Corinthiaca Pausanias Pindar Euripides, Medeia Strabo Hesiod, Aigimius Heracleitos, On Unbelievable Stories Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, Toxaris, or Friendship Scholia on Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, The Dance Pindar, Pythian 4 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Amores Vergil, Georgics
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Demaratos FGrHist 42 fr. 2b 📖 Homer, Odyssey 12.36-12.141 📖 Homer, Iliad 7.464-7.482 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 7c Harder 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 11 Harder 📖 Philostephanos FHG fr. 37 📖 Eratosthenes, Geography fr. 13 Roller 📖 Hipparchos fr. 10 Dicks 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 15a Rusten
- Depictions
- 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Vesonius Primus VI 14, 20, Pompeii (PALP r6-i14-p20-space-q)
- Reported depictions
- 🌍 the Acropolis of Athens
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Ares 👤 Thero (nurse of Ares)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 3.19.7-3.19.8