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An arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.. In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (Ancient Greek: ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι, romanized: hyperbóre(i)oi, pronounced [hyperbóre(ː)oi̯]; Latin: Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.
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).
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. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, which he fled during a plague.
'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 ...
Mesolenellus is a contraction of meso ' middle ' and Olenellus, the genus from which it was split off.The epithet hyperborea is a contraction of hyper (Greek ὑπέρ ' excess ') and Boreas (Greek: Βορέας), god of the North Wind in Greek mythology, referencing the current geographical position of the deposits of its type location.
Much of the value of the Dictionary consists not only in the depth and detail of the individual articles, but in the copious and specific citations to individual Greek and Roman writers, as well as modern scholarship from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements among the ...
The "sp" in the name suggests [citation needed] that it was mediated through Iranian sources to Greek, indeed in Early Iranian Arimaspi combines Ariama (love) and aspa (horses). Herodotus or his source seems to have understood the Scythian word as a combination of the roots arima ("one") and spou ("eye") and to have created a mythic image to ...
Hyperborean cycle, a cycle of ten fantasy stories by Clark Ashton Smith; Hyperborea, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean stories; Hyperborea, a nation in the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard, see also the Hyborian Age for Howard's fictional version of ancient Eurasian history.