Caucasus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the Caucasus
in the texts
The Histories
Mountain range bordering the Caspian Sea, home to numerous nations with distinctive customs.
Along its western shore stretches the range of Caucasus, which has more and higher peaks than any other range.
Men and women here (they say) have intercourse openly, like beasts of the flock.
Adversus Marcionem
Mountain range associated with legends of Prometheus, used in the invective's imagery.
nothing there has any warmth except savagery — that savagery, of course, which gave the stage its fables of the sacrifices of the Tauri, the loves of the Colchians, and the crosses of the Caucasus.