Hyperboreans
Title | Hyperboreans PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy P. Bridgman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2004-02-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135879788 |
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
Title | Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Renaud Gagné |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 571 |
Release | 2021-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108976956 |
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 Book of Hyperborea
Title | The Book of Hyperborea PDF eBook |
Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
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 |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1994-10-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691037882 |
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.
Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea
Title | Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Talanian |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017-10-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780985147662 |
A Role-Playing Game of Swords, Sorcery, and Weird Fantasy
Hyperboreans
Title | Hyperboreans PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy P. Bridgman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2004-02-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113587977X |
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.
Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture
Title | Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Priestley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2014-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199653097 |
Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.