The Seba library treats Black Sea in 4 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, C.G., Harding, M. Esther, Seaford, Richard).
Black Sea/Axeinos/Euxine Sea, 264, brot
Jung’s Dream Analysis seminar indexes the Black Sea under its ancient Greek appellations—Axeinos (inhospitable) and Euxine (hospitable)—placing it within a network of archaic geographical and mythological references operative in the seminar’s symbolic landscape.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
around 8,400 years ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake, isolated from the Mediterranean Sea by a rocky sill in the Bosporus Strait… unleashing a catastrophic inflow of Mediterranean seawater into the Black Sea.
Harding invokes the Black Sea Deluge hypothesis as a possible historical substrate for flood mythology, connecting a documented geological catastrophe to the archetypal theme of world-dissolution underlying the Noah narrative.
, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955supporting
his birth established a large number of colonies in the Black Sea area, and he himself was said to have led a colony there.
Seaford situates Milesian Black Sea colonization within the commercial expansion that generated the material and intellectual conditions for early Greek philosophical and monetary thought.
, Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy, 2004supporting
for an image of Dionysus coming from the sea at Dionysopolis (Pontos)
Burkert notes in passing that a cult image of Dionysus arriving from the sea was attested at Dionysopolis on the Pontic (Black Sea) coast, linking the region to the broader pattern of epiphanic sea-arrivals in Greek religion.
, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, 1972aside