Colchis of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts. Colchis was also the land where the mythological Prometheus was punished by being chained to a mountain while an eagle ate at his liver for revealing to humanity the secret of fire. Apollonius of Rhodes named Aea as the main city ("Argonautica", passim). The main mythical characters from Colchis are: Colchis In pre-Hellenistic Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; Ancient Greek: "Kolkhís") was an exonym (foreign name) for the Georgian kingdom and region of Egrisi () located on the coast of the
The Man Who Went Too Far The Man Who Went Too Far "The Man Who Went Too Far" is a short ghost story by E. F. Benson, collected in his "The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories" (1912). "The Man Who Went Too Far" features allusions to Greek mythology in Pan, the god of nature and rustic music. Its titular character, Frank, is an English gentleman, who connects with nature through a rejection of Christian orthodoxy and embracing of neopaganism. His spiritual journey is defined as a denial of pain and a search for joy: by connecting with nature and rejecting ideas of self-denial and