"The War that Never Was: Goths vs. Egyptians" Topic

"Historians are fairly certain that no ancient Egyptian pharaoh penetrated a day's journey beyond the Euphrates or into Asia Minor, or touched the continent of Europe, but don't mention this to a Colchian. Them's fighting words. Or they would be if the Kingdom of Colchis still existed. Don't sweat the fact that you've probably never heard of Colchis. These days we call it the Black Sea coast of western Georgia, but from the 13th Century BC – 164 B.C. the Kingdom of Colchis was an international superpower, so much so that even the hard-to-impress ancient Greeks were unusually complimentary of them even after Milesian Greeks started colonizing the Colchian coast in the 5th Century B.C.

In the 5th Century B.C., to the Greeks, Colchis represented the easternmost civilized location in the known world and figured prominently in their mythology as the home of Aeëtes, Medea, the Golden Fleece, fire-breathing bulls called Khalkotauleroi, the possible original homeland of the Amazons, and the destination of Jason and the Argonauts. Prometheus was also supposedly chained to a mountain in Colchis where eagles pecked at his liver for stealing fire from the Gods. While the Greeks no doubt thought this was an ingenious punishment, this is the same way most of us would describe our average work day. Give them a break. It was the dawn of melodrama…"
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