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The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail, Herodotus' Histories (Book IV, Chapters 32–36), [9] dates from c. 450 BC. [10] Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that supposedly mentioned the Hyperboreans, including Hesiod and Homer, the latter purportedly having written of Hyperborea in his lost work Epigoni.
Hyperborea: Finland, Russia, and the Baltic countries . Is a land in the "outermost north" according to Greek historian Herodotus. Howard describes his Hyperborea as the first Hyborian kingdom, "which had its beginning in a crude fortress of boulders heaped to repel tribal attack". Possible Scythian influences Hyrkania
In Greek mythology, Abaris the Hyperborean (Ancient Greek: Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος, Ábaris Hyperbóreios), son of Seuthes (Σεύθης), was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks.
Articles relating to Hyperborea, the far northern part of the known world in Greek mythology.Later writers disagreed on the existence and location of the Hyperboreans, with some regarding them as purely mythological, and others connecting them to real-world peoples and places in Northern Europe (e.g. Britain, Scandinavia, or Siberia).
John Herington has developed a helpful metaphor for describing Herodotus's dynamic position in the history of Western art and thought – Herodotus as centaur: The human forepart of the animal ... is the urbane and responsible classical historian; the body indissolubly united to it is something out of the faraway mountains, out of an older ...
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BCE, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Description Book Book number (Roman numeral) and page number of The Histories (Penguin 1975 edition) in which the person is first mentioned. Name The name of the individual as given by Herodotus. State Individual cities were in effect city-states and so a city or a country is appropriate. Lifetime
'Nymphs of Hyperborea'; Latin: Nymphae Hyperboreii) were nymphs in Greek mythology who presided over aspects of archery. [citation needed] Hekaerge (Ancient Greek: Ἑκαέργη, romanized: Hekaergê, Hekaergos, Hecaerge) represented distancing. A daughter of Boreas, and one of the Hyperborean maidens, who were believed to have introduced the ...