Colchis
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In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia also in
A collection of Colchian gold bracelets and necklaces found in Vani, western Georgia
Bronze lamp featuring Heracles, Ariadne and elephants, 1st century BC, Georgian National Museum.
Southern Colchis. From "Reditus Decem Millium Graecorum", 1815
Second century BC Greek bronze torso from Colchis, held at the Georgian National Museum and temporarily exhibited at Cinquantenaire Museum
Argonauts
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The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, Ar
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…significantly to the development of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Georgian nation. Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece. It was also described as a land rich with gold, iron, timber and honey that would export its…
Gathering of the Argonauts, Attic red-figure krater, 460–450 BC (Louvre G 341)
Pelias recognises young Jason by his missing sandal (fresco from Pompeii, 1st-century AD)
Escape of the Argonauts from Colchis (c. 1500–1530), painting by Lorenzo Costa
Hylas and the nymphs, Gallo-Roman mosaic (3rd century)