Hyrcania

Hyrcania is an ancient landscape on the southern Caspian Sea, in present-day Iran and Turkmenistan.

History

Under Darius III. Phrataphernes was (Greek: Φραταφερνης ) satrap of Parthia and Hyrcania. He submitted to Alexander after the death of Darius, and was confirmed by him as satrap. Even after Alexander's death in 323 BC he remained satrap.

Wildlife

In ancient times Hyrcania was famous for its tigers, but these are extinct since approximately 1970. So Dido accuses Aeneas, who has left:

Christoph Martin Wieland uses this metaphor when he accused 1797 Graeter in a letter, if he believes allegations against him, he had " no Christian drops of blood in the body, you gave birth to some Caucasian rock and nursed a hyrkanischer Tiger - in short, you would be-ing a second Robespierre ... "

See also

• Caspian Hyrcania mixed forest
• Georg Friedrich Händel, aria Ruggiero " Sta nell'Ircana Pietrosa tana " from " Alcina " ( Act 3 ): "In her rock hole in Hyrcania the wild tigress hides ... "