Black Sea

The Appolloniats, in the Euxine Sea, having admitted their sojourners to the freedom of their city, were troubled with seditions: and the Syracusians, after the expulsion of their tyrants, having enrolled [1303b] strangers and mercenaries amongst their citizens, quarrelled with each other and came to an open rupture: and the people of Amphipolis, having taken in a colony of Chalcidians, were the greater part of them driven out of the city by them.

She went to the cabinet of maps and unrolled one: this morning she might make herself finally sure that Paphlagonia was not on the Levantine coast, and fix her total darkness about the Chalybes firmly on the shores of the Euxine. A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.

In recommending his son to a merchant as a valuable salesman, a father does not say he is a nice, moral, upright boy, and goes to Sunday School and is honest, but he says, "This boy is worth his weight in broad pieces of a hundred--for behold, he will cheat whomsoever hath dealings with him, and from the Euxine to the waters of Marmora there abideth not so gifted a liar!" How is that for a recommendation?

Duzce takes place (from the three flora regions) in the Euro-Siberian Euxine subregion and A3 square.

What is the more widely accepted modern name for the Euxine Sea?

Athens was dependent on imports of grain from foreign sources such as Sicily, Rhodes, Cypress, Hellespoint, and the Euxine lands.

transports us in the ships of Hiram with cargoes of gold and ivory, apes and peacocks, carries us in voyages along the Mediterranean and beyond trading for the Carthaginians, finds us making voyages in the Euxine in joint adventure with Greeks, when our disputes will be determined by retaining the leaders of the Commercial Court at Athens, of whom Demosthenes is most in request: and will take us to all the fairs and markets of Europe: and expose us to the special customs of our old English towns.

So Cosroe first discloses that there is a plot afoot 'To crown me emperor of Asia', and he is then duly crowned in terms that specify the extent and limits of his great domain: We here do crown thee monarch of the East, Emperor of Asia and of Persia, Great lord of Media and Armenia, Duke of Assyria and Albania, Mesopotamia and of Parthia, East India and the late-discovered isles, Chief lord of all the wide vast Euxine Sea And of the ever-raging Caspian Lake.

According to the pioneering historian Herodotus, "They joined together triremes and penteconters, 360 to support the bridge on the side of the Euxine Sea, and 314 to sustain the other; and these they placed at right angles to the sea, and in the direction of the current of the Hellespont, relieving by these means the tension of the shore cables." When the work was done, Herodotus reports, the engineers secured the bridges, making "cables taut from the shore by the help of wooden capstans." When the bridge was stable, a vast forest of trees was sawn into planks and used to serve as the basis for a roadbed.

This passage-way into life equates with the gateway entrances into temples; it is the Scylla and Charybdis between which Odysseus must pass, the clashing cliffs of the Euxine Sea, the doorway across which the bride is carried, the narrows over which the Lorelei maidens preside, the window behind which sits the virgin mother.