Taurica

The Southern and Western part of the Crimea, however, known as Taurica, was not inhabited until the fourth century B.C. owing to the hostile reputation of the local people, the Taurians, who were infamous in Greek mythology and history for sacrificing shipwrecked sailors to their version of Artemis.

Interactive Dig Black Sea: Synopsis 2006

The other, to wit, William de Rubricis, was 1253. by the way of Constantinople, of the Euxin sea, and of Taurica

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

This he at once resolved to do, and accompanied by his faithful friend Pylades, who insisted on sharing the dangers of the undertaking, he set out for Taurica.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

This divinity was henceforth known as the Brauronian Artemis, and the rites which had rendered her worship so infamous in Taurica were now introduced into Greece, and human victims bled freely under the sacrificial knife, both in Athens and Sparta.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

It was Artemis herself, who, pitying the youth and beauty of her victim, caused her to be conveyed in a cloud to Taurica, where she became one of her priestesses, and intrusted with the charge of her temple; a dignity, however, which necessitated the offering of those human sacrifices presented to Artemis.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

The god commanded him, in expiation of his crime, to repair to Taurica-Chersonnesus and convey the statue of Artemis from thence to the kingdom of Attica, an expedition fraught with extreme peril.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

He went to Taurica, accompanied, as usual, by his ever faithful friend Pylades.

The Story of Troy Michael Clarke 1880

He obeyed, and the oracle told him that he must bring to Greece a statue of Diana which was then in the temple of that goddess in Taurica.

The Story of Troy Michael Clarke 1880

By the help of Iphigenia, the two friends not only escaped from Taurica, but carried off the statue, and Iphigenia returned with them to Greece.

The Story of Troy Michael Clarke 1880

This was a dangerous enterprise, for the king of Taurica had a practice of sacrificing in that very temple any foreigners found in his country.

The Story of Troy Michael Clarke 1880