Also Colchis. In Greek mythology was the country located in the North where the Golden Fleece in the search left Jason and the Argonauts in a boat and finally got was with the help of the sorceress Medea, daughter of King Eetes, whom is married having two children. Jason later left them to join another woman, which killed Medea, as well as their own children. (Tragedy of Euripides ). The myth of the Golden Fleece probably alludes to a thriving wool trade with the eastern part of the Pontus Euxinus ( 41 Black Sea; in the current Georgia to the southwest of the Caucasus.