Hyperboreans: Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: In the course of Greek literary history, six authors wrote texts\nwhich identify the Hyperboreans, a totally m ythical people who\nworshipped Apollo, with Celts, a real northern neighbour of the\nGreeks, or the Hyperboreans lands with Celtic ones. The immediate purpose of the present work has been to examine which texts make this identification, in what contexts they were identified one with another, and, lastly, why these authors identified a mythical people with a real one. It has been the present author's contention throughout this thesis that these texts were not just written by chance by authors who were cranks or who liked to invent tall tales, but that the answers to the questions put forward above were to be sought\nwithin the context of the foundations of Greek culture, thought and literature, in the backgrounds of the authors them selves, in the current philosophical trends of their times and in the history of Celtic- Hellenic contacts in the western Mediterranean.
Source: Classics Ireland
DOI: 10.2307/25528444
Authors: John Carey, T. P. Bridgman
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W580864096