1. Homer, Iliad, 11.270-11.271, 13.6, 16.472, 19.119 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119, 209, 352 | 11.270. / the piercing dart that the Eilithyiae, the goddesses of childbirth, send—even the daughters of Hera that have in their keeping bitter pangs; even so sharp pains came upon the mighty son of Atreus. Then he leapt upon his chariot and bade his charioteer drive to the hollow ships, for he was sore pained at heart. 11.271. / the piercing dart that the Eilithyiae, the goddesses of childbirth, send—even the daughters of Hera that have in their keeping bitter pangs; even so sharp pains came upon the mighty son of Atreus. Then he leapt upon his chariot and bade his charioteer drive to the hollow ships, for he was sore pained at heart. 13.6. / and of the Mysians that fight in close combat, and of the lordly Hippemolgi that drink the milk of mares, and of the Abii, the most righteous of men. To Troy he no longer in any wise turned his bright eyes, for he deemed not in his heart that any of the immortals would draw nigh to aid either Trojans or Danaans. 16.472. / But the other twain reared this way and that, and the yoke creaked, and above them the reins were entangled, when the trace-horse lay low in the dust. Howbeit for this did Automedon, famed for his spear, find him a remedy; drawing his long sword from beside his stout thigh, he sprang forth and cut loose the trace-horse, and faltered not, 19.119. / and swiftly came to Achaean Argos, where she knew was the stately wife of Sthenelus, son of Perseus, that bare a son in her womb, and lo, the seventh month was come. This child Hera brought forth to the light even before the full tale of the months, but stayed Alcmene's bearing, and held back the Eileithyiae. |
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2. Hesiod, Theogony, 922 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 | 922. And Hades, who has sovereignty over those |
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| 3. Simonides, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117 |
| 4. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 10.45 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 5. Pindar, Paeanes, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 6. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 7. Antimachus, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 8. Plato, Axiochus (Spuria), None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 378 |
9. Aristophanes, Wasps, 399 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371| 399. ἤν πως πρύμνην ἀνακρούσηται πληγεὶς ταῖς εἰρεσιώναις. | |
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10. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 399 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371| 399. οὐκ ἔστι πω τὰ πράγματ' ἐν τούτῳ. τί φῄς; | |
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11. Aristophanes, Knights, 729 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371| 729. τὴν εἰρεσιώνην μου κατεσπαράξατε. | |
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12. Herodotus, Histories, 1.105, 4.34-4.36, 7.72 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge •arge and opis Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117, 119, 378; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 | 1.105. From there they marched against Egypt : and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine , Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further. ,So they turned back, and when they came on their way to the city of Ascalon in Syria , most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, but a few remained behind and plundered the temple of Heavenly Aphrodite. ,This temple, I discover from making inquiry, is the oldest of all the temples of the goddess, for the temple in Cyprus was founded from it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria . ,But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and all their descendants after them, were afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”. 4.34. I know that they do this. The Delian girls and boys cut their hair in honor of these Hyperborean maidens, who died at Delos; the girls before their marriage cut off a tress and lay it on the tomb, wound around a spindle ,(this tomb is at the foot of an olive-tree, on the left hand of the entrance of the temple of Artemis); the Delian boys twine some of their hair around a green stalk, and lay it on the tomb likewise. 4.35. In this way, then, these maidens are honored by the inhabitants of Delos. These same Delians relate that two virgins, Arge and Opis, came from the Hyperboreans by way of the aforesaid peoples to Delos earlier than Hyperoche and Laodice; ,these latter came to bring to Eileithyia the tribute which they had agreed to pay for easing child-bearing; but Arge and Opis, they say, came with the gods themselves, and received honors of their own from the Delians. ,For the women collected gifts for them, calling upon their names in the hymn made for them by Olen of Lycia; it was from Delos that the islanders and Ionians learned to sing hymns to Opis and Arge, calling upon their names and collecting gifts (this Olen, after coming from Lycia, also made the other and ancient hymns that are sung at Delos). ,Furthermore, they say that when the thighbones are burnt in sacrifice on the altar, the ashes are all cast on the burial-place of Opis and Arge, behind the temple of Artemis, looking east, nearest the refectory of the people of Ceos. 4.36. I have said this much of the Hyperboreans, and let it suffice; for I do not tell the story of that Abaris, alleged to be a Hyperborean, who carried the arrow over the whole world, fasting all the while. But if there are men beyond the north wind, then there are others beyond the south. ,And I laugh to see how many have before now drawn maps of the world, not one of them reasonably; for they draw the world as round as if fashioned by compasses, encircled by the Ocean river, and Asia and Europe of a like extent. For myself, I will in a few words indicate the extent of the two, and how each should be drawn. 7.72. The Paphlagonians in the army had woven helmets on their heads, and small shields and short spears, and also javelins and daggers; they wore their native shoes that reach midway to the knee. The Ligyes and Matieni and Mariandyni and Syrians were equipped like the Paphlagonians. These Syrians are called by the Persians Cappadocians. ,Dotus son of Megasidrus was commander of the Paphlagonians and Matieni, Gobryas son of Darius and Artystone of the Mariandyni and Ligyes and Syrians. |
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| 13. Callimachus, Hymn To Diana Or Artemis, 204, 240 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 14. Callimachus, Hymn To Delos, 260-263, 280-299, 304-305, 316-323, 306 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 15. Callimachus, Aetia, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 16. Hecataeus Abderita, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 17. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371 |
| 18. Megasthenes, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 19. Apollodorus Gelous, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 20. Hyperides, Epitaphius, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 21. Apollodorus of Carystus, Fragments, None (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 22. Apollodorus of Carystus, Fragments, None (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 23. Euphorion of Chalcis, Fragments, None (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 353 |
24. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.58 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 | 3.58. Likewise there are several Dianas. The first, daughter of Jupiter and Proserpine, is said to have given birth to the winged Cupid. The second is more celebrated; tradition makes her the daughter of the third Jupiter and of Latona. The father of the third is recorded to have been Upis, and her mother Glauce; the Greeks often call her by her father's name of Upis. We have a number of Dionysi. The first is the son of Jupiter and Proserpine; the second of Nile — he is the fabled slayer of Nysa. The father of the third is Cabirus; it is stated that he was king over Asia, and the Sabazia were instituted in his honour. The fourth is the son of Jupiter and Luna; the Orphic rites are believed to be celebrated in his honour. The fifth is the son of Nisus and Thyone, and is believed to have established the Trieterid festival. |
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| 25. Apollodorus of Seleucia, Fragments, None (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 26. Apollodorus Erythaeus, Fragments, None (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 27. Apollodorus Artemita, Fragments, None (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
28. Plutarch, Theseus, 22.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371| 22.4. θάψας δὲ τὸν πατέρα, τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὴν εὐχὴν ἀπεδίδου τῇ ἑβδόμῃ τοῦ Πυανεψιῶνος μηνὸς ἱσταμένου· ταύτῃ γὰρ ἀνέβησαν εἰς ἄστυ σωθέντες. ἡ μὲν οὖν ἕψησις τῶν ὀσπρίων λέγεται γίνεσθαι διὰ τὸ σωθέντας αὐτοὺς εἰς ταὐτὸ συμμῖξαι τὰ περιόντα τῶν σιτίων καὶ μίαν χύτραν κοινὴν ἑψήσαντας συνεστιαθῆναι καὶ συγκαταφαγεῖν ἀλλήλοις. | |
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| 29. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 4.89-4.90 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 30. Mela, De Chorographia, 3.37 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 31. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 32. Pollux, Onomasticon, 1.38 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
33. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.18.5, 1.43.4, 2.13.3, 5.7.8, 8.21.3, 9.27.2, 10.5.7-10.5.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117, 119, 120| 1.18.5. πλησίον δὲ ᾠκοδόμητο ναὸς Εἰλειθυίας, ἣν ἐλθοῦσαν ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων ἐς Δῆλον γενέσθαι βοηθὸν ταῖς Λητοῦς ὠδῖσι, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους παρʼ αὐτῶν φασι τῆς Εἰλειθυίας μαθεῖν τὸ ὄνομα· καὶ θύουσί τε Εἰλειθυίᾳ Δήλιοι καὶ ὕμνον ᾄδουσιν Ὠλῆνος. Κρῆτες δὲ χώρας τῆς Κνωσσίας ἐν Ἀμνισῷ γενέσθαι νομίζουσιν Εἰλείθυιαν καὶ παῖδα Ἥρας εἶναι· μόνοις δὲ Ἀθηναίοις τῆς Εἰλειθυίας κεκάλυπται τὰ ξόανα ἐς ἄκρους τοὺς πόδας. τὰ μὲν δὴ δύο εἶναι Κρητικὰ καὶ Φαίδρας ἀναθήματα ἔλεγον αἱ γυναῖκες, τὸ δὲ ἀρχαιότατον Ἐρυσίχθονα ἐκ Δήλου κομίσαι. 1.43.4. ἐντεῦθεν πρὸς τὸ Ἀλκάθου βαδίζουσιν ἡρῷον, ᾧ Μεγαρεῖς ἐς γραμμάτων φυλακὴν ἐχρῶντο ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ, μνῆμα ἔλεγον τὸ μὲν Πυργοῦς εἶναι γυναικὸς Ἀλκάθου πρὶν ἢ τὴν Μεγαρέως αὐτὸν λαβεῖν Εὐαίχμην, τὸ δὲ Ἰφινόης Ἀλκάθου θυγατρός· ἀποθανεῖν δὲ αὐτήν φασιν ἔτι παρθένον. καθέστηκε δὲ ταῖς κόραις χοὰς πρὸς τὸ τῆς Ἰφινόης μνῆμα προσφέρειν πρὸ γάμου καὶ ἀπάρχεσθαι τῶν τριχῶν, καθὰ καὶ τῇ Ἑκαέργῃ καὶ Ὤπιδι αἱ θυγατέρες ποτὲ ἀπεκείροντο αἱ Δηλίων. 2.13.3. προσέσται δὲ ἤδη καὶ τῶν ἐς ἐπίδειξιν ἡκόντων τὰ ἀξιολογώτατα. ἔστι γὰρ ἐν τῇ Φλιασίων ἀκροπόλει κυπαρίσσων ἄλσος καὶ ἱερὸν ἁγιώτατον ἐκ παλαιοῦ· τὴν δὲ θεὸν ἧς ἐστι τὸ ἱερὸν οἱ μὲν ἀρχαιότατοι Φλιασίων Γανυμήδαν, οἱ δὲ ὕστερον Ἥβην ὀνομάζουσιν· ἧς καὶ Ὅμηρος μνήμην ἐποιήσατο ἐν τῇ Μενελάου πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον μονομαχίᾳ φάμενος οἰνοχόον τῶν θεῶν εἶναι, καὶ αὖθις ἐν Ὀδυσσέως ἐς Ἅιδου καθόδῳ γυναῖκα Ἡρακλέους εἶπεν εἶναι. Ὠλῆνι δὲ ἐν Ἥρας ἐστὶν ὕμνῳ πεποιημένα τραφῆναι τὴν Ἥραν ὑπὸ Ὡρῶν, εἶναι δέ οἱ παῖδας Ἄρην τε καὶ Ἥβην. 5.7.8. πρῶτος μὲν ἐν ὕμνῳ τῷ ἐς Ἀχαιίαν ἐποίησεν Ὠλὴν Λύκιος ἀφικέσθαι τὴν Ἀχαιίαν ἐς Δῆλον ἐκ τῶν Ὑπερβορέων τούτων· ἔπειτα δὲ ᾠδὴν Μελάνωπος Κυμαῖος ἐς Ὦπιν καὶ Ἑκαέργην ᾖσεν, ὡς ἐκ τῶν Ὑπερβορέων καὶ αὗται πρότερον ἔτι τῆς Ἀχαιίας ἀφίκοντο καὶ ἐς Δῆλον· 8.21.3. τῇ δὲ Κλειτορίων πόλει τὸ μὲν ὄνομα ἀπὸ τοῦ παιδὸς ἐτέθη τοῦ Ἀζᾶνος, οἰκεῖται δʼ ἐν ὁμαλῷ, κύκλῳ δὲ ὄρη περιέχοντά ἐστιν οὐ μεγάλα. Κλειτορίοις δὲ ἱερὰ τὰ ἐπιφανέστατα Δήμητρος τό τε Ἀσκληπιοῦ, τρίτον δέ ἐστιν Εἰλειθυίας εἶναι, καὶ ἀριθμὸν ἐποίησεν οὐδένα ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς· Λύκιος δὲ Ὠλὴν ἀρχαιότερος τὴν ἡλικίαν, Δηλίοις ὕμνους καὶ ἄλλους ποιήσας καὶ ἐς Εἰλείθυιαν τε , εὔλινόν τε αὐτὴν ἀνακαλεῖ— δῆλον ὡς τῇ πεπρωμένῃ τὴν αὐτήν—καὶ Κρόνου πρεσβυτέραν φησὶν εἶναι. 9.27.2. Ἔρωτα δὲ ἄνθρωποι μὲν οἱ πολλοὶ νεώτατον θεῶν εἶναι καὶ Ἀφροδίτης παῖδα ἥγηνται· Λύκιος δὲ Ὠλήν, ὃς καὶ τοὺς ὕμνους τοὺς ἀρχαιοτάτους ἐποίησεν Ἕλλησιν, οὗτος ὁ Ὠλὴν ἐν Εἰλειθυίας ὕμνῳ μητέρα Ἔρωτος τὴν Εἰλείθυιάν φησιν εἶναι. Ὠλῆνος δὲ ὕστερον Πάμφως τε ἔπη καὶ Ὀρφεὺς ἐποίησαν· καί σφισιν ἀμφοτέροις πεποιημένα ἐστὶν ἐς Ἔρωτα, ἵνα ἐπὶ τοῖς δρωμένοις Λυκομίδαι καὶ ταῦτα ᾄδωσιν· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπελεξάμην ἀνδρὶ ἐς λόγους ἐλθὼν δᾳδουχοῦντι. καὶ τῶν μὲν οὐ πρόσω ποιήσομαι μνήμην· Ἡσίοδον δὲ ἢ τὸν Ἡσιόδῳ Θεογονίαν ἐσποιήσαντα οἶδα γράψαντα ὡς Χάος πρῶτον, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτῷ Γῆ τε καὶ Τάρταρος καὶ Ἔρως γένοιτο· 10.5.7. ἤκουσα δὲ καὶ ὡς ἄνδρες ποιμαίνοντες ἐπιτύχοιεν τῷ μαντείῳ, καὶ ἔνθεοί τε ἐγένοντο ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀτμοῦ καὶ ἐμαντεύσαντο ἐξ Ἀπόλλωνος. μεγίστη δὲ καὶ παρὰ πλείστων ἐς Φημονόην δόξα ἐστίν, ὡς πρόμαντις γένοιτο ἡ Φημονόη τοῦ θεοῦ πρώτη καὶ πρώτη τὸ ἑξάμετρον ᾖσεν. Βοιὼ δὲ ἐπιχωρία γυνὴ ποιήσασα ὕμνον Δελφοῖς ἔφη κατασκευάσασθαι τὸ μαντεῖον τῷ θεῷ τοὺς ἀφικομένους ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων τούς τε ἄλλους καὶ Ὠλῆνα· τοῦτον δὲ καὶ μαντεύσασθαι πρῶτον καὶ ᾄσαι πρῶτον τὸ ἑξάμετρον. 10.5.8. πεποίηκε δὲ ἡ Βοιὼ τοιάδε· ἔνθα τοι εὔμνηστον χρηστήριον ἐκτελέσαντο παῖδες Ὑπερβορέων Παγασὸς καὶ δῖος Ἀγυιεύς. Boeo, work unknown ἐπαριθμοῦσα δὲ καὶ ἄλλους τῶν Ὑπερβορέων, ἐπὶ τελευτῇ τοῦ ὕμνου τὸν Ὠλῆνα ὠνόμασεν· Ὠλήν θʼ, ὃς γένετο πρῶτος Φοίβοιο προφάτας, πρῶτος δʼ ἀρχαίων ἐπέων τεκτάνατʼ ἀοιδάν. Boeo, work unknown οὐ μέντοι τά γε ἥκοντα ἐς μνήμην ἐς ἄλλον τινά, ἐς δὲ γυναικῶν μαντείαν ἀνήκει μόνων. | 1.18.5. Hard by is built a temple of Eileithyia, who they say came from the Hyperboreans to Delos and helped Leto in her labour; and from Delos the name spread to other peoples. The Delians sacrifice to Eileithyia and sing a hymn of Olen . But the Cretans suppose that Eileithyia was born at Auunisus in the Cnossian territory, and that Hera was her mother. Only among the Athenians are the wooden figures of Eileithyia draped to the feet. The women told me that two are Cretan, being offerings of Phaedra, and that the third, which is the oldest, Erysichthon brought from Delos . 1.43.4. Between this and the hero-shrine of Alcathous, which in my day the Megarians used as a record office, was the tomb, they said, of Pyrgo, the wife of Alcathous before he married Euaechme, the daughter of Megareus, and the tomb of Iphinoe, the daughter of Alcathous; she died, they say, a maid. It is customary for the girls to bring libations to the tomb of Iphiaoe and to offer a lock of their hair before their wedding, just as the daughters of the Delians once cut their hair for Hecaerge and Opis. 2.13.3. I will now add an account of the most remarkable of their famous sights. On the Phliasian citadel is a grove of cypress trees and a sanctuary which from ancient times has been held to be peculiarly holy. The earliest Phliasians named the goddess to whom the sanctuary belongs Ganymeda; but later authorities call her Hebe, whom Homer Hom. Il. 4.2 foll. mentions in the duel between Menelaus and Alexander, saying that she was the cup-bearer of the gods; and again he says, in the descent of Odysseus to Hell, Hom. Od. 11.603 that she was the wife of Heracles. Olen , A mythical poet of Greece , associated with Apollo. in his hymn to Hera, says that Hera was reared by the Seasons, and that her children were Ares and Hebe. of the honors that the Phliasians pay to this goddess the greatest is the pardoning of suppliants. 5.7.8. Olen the Lycian, in his hymn to Achaeia, was the first to say that from these Hyperboreans Achaeia came to Delos . When Melanopus of Cyme composed an ode to Opis and Hecaerge declaring that these, even before Achaeia, came to Delos from the Hyperboreans. 8.21.3. Cleitor got its name from the son of Azan, and is situated on a level spot surrounded by low hills. The most celebrated sanctuaries of the Cleitorians are those of Demeter, Asclepius and, thirdly, Eileithyia . . . to be, and gave no number for them. The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her “the clever spinner,” clearly identifying her with fate, and makes her older than Cronus. 9.27.2. Most men consider Love to be the youngest of the gods and the son of Aphrodite. But Olen the Lycian, who composed the oldest Greek hymns, says in a hymn to Eileithyia that she was the mother of Love. Later than Olen , both Pamphos and Orpheus wrote hexameter verse, and composed poems on Love, in order that they might be among those sung by the Lycomidae to accompany the ritual. I read them after conversation with a Torchbearer. of these things I will make no further mention. Hesiod, Hes. Th. 116 foll. or he who wrote the Theogony fathered on Hesiod, writes, I know, that Chaos was born first, and after Chaos, Earth, Tartarus and Love. 10.5.7. I have heard too that shepherds feeding their flocks came upon the oracle, were inspired by the vapor, and prophesied as the mouthpiece of Apollo. The most prevalent view, however, is that Phemonoe was the first prophetess of the god, and first sang in hexameter verse. Boeo, a native woman who composed a hymn for the Delphians, said that the oracle was established for the god by comers from the Hyperboreans, Olen and others, and that he was the first to prophesy and the first to chant the hexameter oracles. 10.5.8. The verses of Boeo are:— Here in truth a mindful oracle was built By the sons of the Hyperboreans, Pagasus and divine Agyieus. Boeo, work unknown After enumerating others also of the Hyperboreans, at the end of the hymn she names Olen :— And Olen, who became the first prophet of Phoebus, And first fashioned a song of ancient verses. Boeo, work unknown Tradition, however, reports no other man as prophet, but makes mention of prophetesses only. |
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| 34. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 5.480-5.484, 48.331-48.334 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 395 |
| 35. Martianus Capella, On The Marriage of Philology And Mercury, 6.664 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 36. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 5.22 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 37. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 5.22 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 38. Theodoret of Cyrus, Cure of The Greek Maladies, None (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 39. Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon, None (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 40. Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon (A-O), None (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 41. Heraclitus The Allegorist, Homeric Problems, 7.8 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 42. Bacchylides, Odes, 3.56-3.66 Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 43. Epigraphy, Ngsl, 20 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 119 |
| 44. Apollodorus of Carystus, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 45. Solinus C. Julius, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, 16.4 Tagged with subjects: •arge and opis Found in books: Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 121 |
| 46. Stephanos Ho Byzantios, Ethnica, None Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 209 |
47. Strabo, Geography, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 | 15.1.57. He then deviates into fables, and says that there are men of five, and even three spans in height, some of whom are without nostrils, with only two breathing orifices above the mouth. Those of three spans in height wage war with the cranes (described by Homer) and with the partridges, which are as large as geese; these people collect and destroy the eggs of the cranes which lay their eggs there; and nowhere else are the eggs or the young cranes to be found; frequently a crane escapes from this country with a brazen point of a weapon in its body, wounded by these people.Similar to this is the account of the Enotocoitae, of the wild men, and of other monsters. The wild men could not be brought to Sandrocottus, for they died by abstaining from food. Their heels are in front, the instep and toes are turned backwards. Some have been taken, which had no mouths, and were tame. They live near the sources of the Ganges, and are supported by the smell of dressed meat and the fragrance of fruits and flowers, having instead of mouths orifices through which they breathe. They are distressed by strong-smelling substances, and therefore their lives are sustained with difficulty, particularly in a camp.With respect to the other singular animals, the philosophers informed him of a people called Ocypodae, so swift of foot that they leave horses behind them; of Enotocoitae, or persons having ears hanging down to their feet, so that they lie and sleep upon them, and so strong as to be able to pluck up trees and to break the sinew string of a bow; of others (Monommati) who have only one eye, and the ears of a dog, the eye placed in the middle of the forehead, the hair standing erect, and the breasts shaggy; of others (Amycteres) without nostrils, devouring everything, eaters of raw meat, short-lived, and dying before they arrive at old age; the upper part of their mouths projects far beyond the lower lip.With respect to the Hyperboreans, who live to the age of a thousand years, his description is the same as that of Simonides, Pindar, and other mythological writers.The story told by Timagenes of a shower of drops of brass, which were raked together, is a fable. The account of Megasthenes is more probable, namely, that the rivers bring down gold-dust, a part of which is paid as a tax to the king; and this is the case in Iberia (of Armenia). |
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| 48. Epigraphy, Ig, None Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117 |
49. Vergil, Aeneis, 4.143-4.144, 11.532-11.596, 11.836-11.867 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117, 120 | 4.143. Why further go? Prithee, what useful end 4.144. has our long war? Why not from this day forth 11.532. thou madman! Aye, with thy vile, craven soul 11.533. disturb the general cause. Extol the power 11.534. of a twice-vanquished people, and decry 11.535. Latinus' rival arms. From this time forth 11.536. let all the Myrmidonian princes cower 11.537. before the might of Troy ; let Diomed 11.538. and let Achilles tremble; let the stream 11.539. of Aufidus in panic backward flow 11.540. from Hadria 's wave. But hear me when I say 11.541. that though his guilt and cunning feign to feel 11.542. fear of my vengeance, much embittering so 11.543. his taunts and insult—such a life as his 11.544. my sword disdains. O Drances, be at ease! 11.545. In thy vile bosom let thy breath abide! 11.546. But now of thy grave counsel and thy cause, 11.547. O royal sire, I speak. If from this hour 11.548. thou castest hope of armed success away, 11.549. if we be so unfriended that one rout 11.550. o'erwhelms us utterly, if Fortune's feet 11.551. never turn backward, let us, then, for peace 11.552. offer petition, lifting to the foe 11.553. our feeble, suppliant hands. Yet would I pray 11.554. ome spark of manhood such as once we knew 11.555. were ours once more! I count him fortunate, 11.556. and of illustrious soul beyond us all, 11.557. who, rather than behold such things, has fallen 11.558. face forward, dead, his teeth upon the dust. 11.559. But if we still have power, and men-at-arms 11.560. unwasted and unscathed, if there survive 11.561. Italian tribes and towns for help in war, 11.562. aye! if the Trojans have but won success 11.563. at bloody cost,—for they dig graves, I ween, 11.564. torm-smitten not less than we,—O, wherefore now 11.565. tand faint and shameful on the battle's edge? 11.566. Why quake our knees before the trumpet call? 11.567. Time and the toil of shifting, changeful days 11.568. restore lost causes; ebbing tides of chance 11.569. deceive us oft, which after at their flood 11.570. do lift us safe to shore. If aid come not 11.571. from Diomed in Arpi , our allies 11.572. hall be Mezentius and Tolumnius, 11.573. auspicious name, and many a chieftain sent 11.574. from many a tribe; not all inglorious 11.575. are Latium 's warriors from Laurentian land! 11.576. Hither the noble Volscian stem sends down 11.577. Camilla with her beauteous cavalry 11.578. in glittering brass arrayed. But if, forsooth, 11.579. the Trojans call me singly to the fight, 11.580. if this be what ye will, and I so much 11.581. the public weal impair—when from this sword 11.582. has victory seemed to fly away in scorn? 11.583. I should not hopeless tread in honor's way 11.584. whate'er the venture. Dauntless will I go 11.585. though equal match for great Achilles, he, 11.586. and though he clothe him in celestial arms 11.587. in Vulcan's smithy wrought. I, Turnus, now, 11.588. not less than equal with great warriors gone, 11.589. vow to Latinus, father of my bride, 11.590. and to ye all, each drop of blood I owe. 11.591. Me singly doth Aeneas call? I crave 11.592. that challenge. Drances is not called to pay 11.593. the debt of death, if wrath from Heaven impend; 11.595. Thus in their doubtful cause the chieftains strove. 11.596. Meanwhile Aeneas his assaulting line 11.836. whirled backward on the reingulfing waves, 11.837. it quits the ledges, and with ebbing flow 11.838. far from the shore retires. The Tuscans twice 11.839. drive back the flying Rutules to the town; 11.840. and twice repulsed, with shields to rearward thrown, 11.841. glare back at the pursuer; but conjoined 11.842. in the third battle-charge, both armies merge 11.843. confusedly together in grim fight 11.844. of man to man; then follow dying groans, 11.845. armor blood-bathed and corpses, and strong steeds 11.846. inextricably with their masters slain, 11.847. o fierce the fray. Orsilochus—afraid 11.848. to front the warrior's arms—launched forth a spear 11.849. at Remulus' horse, and left the fatal steel 11.850. clinging below its ear; the charger plunged 11.851. madly, and tossed its trembling hoofs in air, 11.852. ustaining not the wound; the rider fell, 11.853. flung headlong to the ground. Catillus slew 11.854. Iollas; and then struck Herminius down, 11.855. great-bodied and great-hearted, who could wield 11.856. a monster weapon, and whose yellow hair 11.857. from naked head to naked shoulder flowed. 11.858. By wounds unterrified he dared oppose 11.859. his huge bulk to the foe: the quivering spear 11.860. pierced to his broad back, and with throes of pain 11.861. bowed the man double and clean clove him through. 11.862. Wide o'er the field th' ensanguined horror flowed, 11.863. where fatal swords were crossed and cut their way 11.865. Swift through the midmost slaughter proudly strides 11.866. the quiver-girt Camilla, with one breast 11.867. thrust naked to the fight, like Amazon. |
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| 50. Homeric Hymsn, Homeric Hymn To Apollo, 100-105, 107-116, 97-99, 106 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 51. Suidas Thessalius, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371 |
| 52. Menander Rhetor, Division of Epideictic Speeches, 236 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117 |
| 54. Servius Danielis, Aeneid, 11.532, 11.858 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
| 56. Epigraphy, Lscg, 20 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 117 |
| 58. Anon., Patmos Lexicon, None Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 371 |
| 60. Phanodicus, Fgrh, None Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 352 |
| 62. Michael Psellus, Oratoria Minora, 37.165 Tagged with subjects: •opis and arge Found in books: Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 120 |
