21. PREACHING WITH TUNED RESPONSE

The Black Sea was known to the ancient Greeks as the Euxine. The word literally means "hospitable," covering a harsh reality (similar as the Furies are referred to as "the kindly ones"). 

It is the remotest peripheries of the Greek world, thought of as a land of strange and mysterious wonders. Thus it was the mythological land of the Amazons, prodigious huntresses who shunned men except when it was time to produce offspring for their tribe. 

It was to Colchis on the Black Sea coast that Jason and the Argonauts journeyed in quest of the Golden Fleece. In the 4th century BC, Hecataeus of Abdera attributes the Black Sea to Oceanus, the oldest of the Titan gods before the birth of Zeus.