Bosphorus

His brother Demetrius felt like he should have been chosen.

So Demetrius goes across the Bosporus, gathers like 80,000 of these Turkish hordes, brings them to the walls of Constantinople to force his brother to recognize his claims to royalty.

And the Turks are like, you know what? We can declare war against Constantinople without this Demetrius guy.

He was so myopic.

Similar catastrophic floods happened in Siberia, Europe, and Asia as ice dams failed and meltwater surged across the land.

There's also evidence for the Black Sea Deluge hypothesis, the idea that around 7,600 years ago, rising Mediterranean waters breached a natural dam at the Bosphorus, flooding into the Black Sea basin with the force of 200 Niagara Falls.

if people were living around the shores of what was then a freshwater lake this would have been absolutely catastrophic entire settlements drowning in a matter of days or weeks populations forced to flee inland carrying stories of the disaster with them recent geological work has identified multiple other possible catastrophic flood events The flooding of the Persian Gulf as sea levels rose after the Ice Age.

Major tsunami events caused by underwater landslides or earthquakes.

Hearest thou the address of the cow-horned virgin? Prometheus.

and how not here the fly world virgin daughter of inachus whose zeus's heart warmed with love and now the courses overlonged by herei hated forcedly performs io whence utterest thou my father's name tell me miserable who thou art that to me o suffering one me born to suffer thus true things dost address the god-sent ale thou namest which wastes me stinging with maddening goads alas alas with foodless and unseemly leaps rushing headlong i came by wrathful plots subdued who of the wretched who alas alas suffers like me but to me clearly show what me awaits to suffer what not necessary what remedy of ill teach if indeed thou know'st speak out tell the ill wandering virgin prometheus i'll clearly tell thee all you wish to learn not weaving in enigmas but in simple speech as it is just to open the mouth to friends thou seest the giver of fire to men prometheus io o thou who didst appear a common help to mortals wretched prometheus to atone for what do you endure this prometheus i have scarce ceased my sufferings lamenting io would you not grant this favour to me prometheus say what you ask for you learn all from me io say who has bound thee to the cliff prometheus the will indeed of zeus hephaestus hand io and penalty for what crimes dost thou pay pr thus much only can i show thee io but beside this declare what time will be to me unfortunate the limit of my wandering pr not to learn is better for thee than to learn these things io conceal not from me what i am to suffer pr indeed i grudge thee not this favour io why then dost thou delay to tell the whole prometheus there's no unwillingness but i hesitate to vex thy mind io care not for me more than is pleasant to me prometheus since you are earnest it behoves to speak hear then chorus not yet indeed but a share of pleasure also give to me first will learn the malady of this one herself relating her destructive fortunes and the remainder of her trials let her learn from thee prometheus tis thy part io to do these a favour as well for every other reason and as they are sisters of thy father since to weep and to lament misfortunes there where one will get a tear from those attending is worthy the delay io i know not that i need distrust you but in plain speech you shall learn all that you ask for and yet e'en telling i lament the god-sent tempest and dissolution of my form whence to me miserable it came for always visions in the night moving about my virgin chambers enticed me with smooth words o greatly happy virgin why be a virgin long is permitted to obtain the greatest marriage for zeus with love's dart has been warmed by thee and wishes to unite in love but do thou o child spurn not the couch of zeus but go out to lerna's deep morass and stables of thy father's herds that the divine eye may cease from desire with such dreams every night was i unfortunate distressed till i dared tell my father of the night wandering visions and he to pytho and dodona frequent prophets sent that he might learn what it was necessary he should say or do to do agreeably to the gods and they came bringing ambiguous oracles darkly and indistinctly uttered but finally a plain report came to enochus clearly enjoining him and telling out of my home and country to expel me discharged to wander to the earth's last bounds and if he was not willing from zeus would come a fiery thunderbolt which would annihilate all his race induced by such predictions of the loxian against his will he drove me out and shut me from the houses but zeus's reign compelled him by force to do these things immediately my form and mind were changed and horned as you behold stung by a sharp-mouthed fly with frantic leaping rushed i to cancria's palatable stream and lerna's source but a herdsman born of earth of violent temper argus accompanied with numerous eyes my steps observing but unexpectedly a sudden fate robbed him of life and i fly stung by lash divine am driven from land to land you hear what has been done and if you have to say aught what's left of labour speak nor pitying me comfort with false words for an ill the worst of all i say are made-up words chorus ah ah enough alas ne'er ne'er did i presume such cruel words would reach my ears nor thus unsightly and intolerable hurts sufferings fears with a two-edged goad would chill my soul alas fate fate i shudder seeing the state of io prometheus beforehand sigh'st thou and art full of fears hold till the rest also thou learn'st chorus tell teach for to the sick tis sweet to know the remaining pain beforehand clearly prometheus your former wish ye got from me with ease for first ye asked to learn from her relating her own trials the rest now here what sufferings tis necessary this young woman should endure from here but do thou offspring of inachus my words cast in thy mind that thou mayst learn the boundaries of the way first indeed hence towards the rising of the sun turning thyself travel uncultivated lands and to the scythian nomads thou wilt come who woven roofs on high inhabit on well-wheeled carts with far casting bows equipped whom go not near but to the sea resounding cliffs bending thy feet pass from the region on the left hand the iron-working calabes inhabit whom thou must needs beware for they are rude and inaccessible to strangers and thou wilt come to the hybristes river not ill-named which pass not for not easy is it to pass before ye get to caucasus itself highest of mountains where the stream spurts out its tide from the very temples and passing over the star-neighbored summits tis necessary to go the southern way where thou wilt come to the man-hating army of the amazons who themyscira one day will inhabit by the thermidon where psalmidesia rough jaw of the sea inhospitable to sailors stepmother of ships they will conduct thee on thy way and very cheerfully and to the cimmerian isthmus thou wilt come just on the narrow portals of a lake which leaving it behoves thee with stout heart to pass the meiotic straits and there will be to mortals ever a great fame of thy passage and bosphorus from thy name twill be called and leaving europe's plain the continent of asia thou wilt reach seemeth to thee forsooth the tyrant of the gods in everything to be thus violent for he a god with this mortal wishing to unite drove her to these wanderings a bitter wooer didst thou find o virgin for thy marriage for the words you now have heard think not yet to be the prelude eo ah me me alas alas prometheus again dost shriek and heave a sigh what wilt thou do when the remaining ills thou learn'st chorus and hast thou any further suffering to tell her prometheus ay a tempestuous sea of baleful woe io what profit then for me to live and not in haste to cast myself from this rough rock that rushing down upon the plain i may be released from every trouble for better once for all to die than all my days to suffer evilly End of part two, recording by expatriate in Bangor, Maine.

Part three of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

We can never sufficiently regret all that has been so gratuitously lost, although, in Palestine, one necessarily becomes somewhat hardened to losses of the kind.

Trustworthy witnesses who saw the map before the mutilation recently inflicted concur in testifying that it originally recorded the position of Ephesus, Smyrna, and Constantinople, showing that it must have included Asia Minor and the Bosphorus.

And so we wrangle and regret.

We take long journeys to see this marvel of the science of at least thirteen hundred years ago.