Caviar sturgeon from the Sea of Azov began reaching the tables of aristocratic and noble Byzantine Greeks in the 10th century, after the commencement of large-scale trading between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus'. The main types of caviar are Beluga, Sterlet, Kaluga hybrid, American osetra, Ossetra, Siberian sturgeon and Sevruga. The rarest and costliest is from beluga sturgeon that swim in the Caspian Sea, which is bordered by Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan. Wild caviar production was suspended in Russia between 2008 and 2011 to allow wild stocks to replenish. Azerbaijan and Iran also allow the fishing of sturgeon
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