The idea of Europe as a unity of different peoples sharing a common history can be traced back to the 3rd century BC, when Apollonius’ Argonautica – composed by the Head of the Alexandrian Library – first challenged the Greek habit of labelling all non-Hellenic peoples as “Barbarian”. By explicitly naming Medea’s native Colchian a Kartvelian language, Apollonius acknowledged the diversity of the w...