Hyperboreans

Hyperboreans
Title Hyperboreans PDF eBook
Author Timothy P. Bridgman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 220
Release 2004-02-29
Genre History
ISBN 1135879788

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In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.

Hyperboreans

Hyperboreans
Title Hyperboreans PDF eBook
Author Timothy P. Bridgman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 234
Release 2004-02-29
Genre History
ISBN 113587977X

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In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.

Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece
Title Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece PDF eBook
Author Renaud Gagné
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 571
Release 2021-04-22
Genre History
ISBN 1108833233

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Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.

The Book of Hyperborea

The Book of Hyperborea
Title The Book of Hyperborea PDF eBook
Author Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher
Pages 180
Release 1996
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece
Title Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece PDF eBook
Author Renaud Gagné
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 571
Release 2021-04-22
Genre History
ISBN 1108976956

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Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.

The Hyperboreans

The Hyperboreans
Title The Hyperboreans PDF eBook
Author Tsvete Lazova
Publisher Centre of Underwater Archaeology
Pages 94
Release 1996
Genre Cults
ISBN

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The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought
Title The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought PDF eBook
Author James S. Romm
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 252
Release 1994-10-09
Genre History
ISBN 9780691037882

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The "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition, surveyed here, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.