Sevruga caviar Sevruga caviar Sevruga caviar is one of the highest priced varieties of caviar, eclipsed in cost only by the Beluga and Ossetra varieties. It is harvested from a variety of critically endangered sturgeon fish species, that are known for their small, grey colored eggs. In eastern Europe, it is harvested from the Sevruga sturgeon ("Acipenser stellatus"), the Sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) and the Siberian sturgeon ("Acipenser baerii"), which are native to the Caspian Sea and the surrounding rivers. Sevruga is the smallest of the caviar-producing sturgeons. It can grow as far as 150 lbs. in weight and 7 feet in
Types of Women creatures, all of which are also found in Semonides' poem; similar stories are found in poems by Callimachus and Horace. The "Types of Women" shows the clear influence of Hesiod, who tells the story of the creation of the first woman both in the "Theogony" and the "Works and Days". Semonides apparently refers to Hesiod's work in other fragments, and so the poems were probably known to him. Nicole Loraux interprets Semonides' poem as "a polemical reading of Hesiod". She argues that while Hesiod treats all women as essentially similar, Semonides treats them separately – so while Pandora is, in