Black Sea
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Leptines
Region from which Athens receives much of its imported corn.
Now the corn that comes to our ports from the Black Sea is equal to the whole amount from all other places of export.
On the Treaty with Alexander
Sea route from which Athenian ships were returning when Macedonians allegedly interfered with them.
for they have grown so arrogant that they forced all our ships coming from the Black Sea to put in at Tenedos, and under one pretence or another refused to release them until you passed a decree to man and launch a hundred war-galleys instantly, and you put Menestheus in command.
Cyropaedia
Northern boundary of Cyrus's empire.
For it was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.
From that time on his empire was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south by Ethiopia.