place
Persia
The Iranian heartland of the former Achaemenid empire.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Persians
The Persians, cited with Indians as evidence of how far the Macedonian tongue traveled.
- On Anger §3.15 Persians
The Persians, whose king (in Seneca's telling) fed Harpagus his children; the setting for these portraits of tyrannical cruelty.
- Natural Questions §5.16.1 Persia
The Persian empire / Iran, here a marker of the eastern, dawn-facing quarter.
- Phaedra §316 Persia
The East, here joined with Lydia as witness to Hercules' humiliation in love.