place
the Caspian
The far northeastern sea, byword for the edge of the lawless barbarian world.
Reading notes
- Hercules on Oeta §104 the wild Caspian beast
The Caspian region, proverbial for tigers; the chorus imagines a tigress suckling the infant Hercules.
- Natural Questions §3.29.8 the Caspian
Inland sea east of the Black Sea, named among the seas the flood will efface.
- The Trojan Women §1139 Caspian
The far northeastern sea, byword for the edge of the lawless barbarian world.