Hyperboreans
group · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Hyperborean people · meeting-place of the Hyperboreans · the Hyperboreans · the servants of Apollo
in the texts
Stromata
Legendary northern people described by Hellanicus as taught righteousness.
And Hellanicus relates that the Hyperboreans dwell beyond the Rhipaean mountains, and are taught righteousness, not eating flesh but using acorns and the like;
The Histories
A people said to live beyond the north wind, known chiefly through poetic mention and through the Delian tradition of offerings passed from nation to nation to Delos.
I have said this much of the Hyperboreans, and let it suffice;
and the offerings, it is said, come by this conveyance to Delos.
They say that offerings wrapped in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia;
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
A distant mythic people named as a possible destination for the captive.
I reckon he is bound for Egypt or for Cyprus or to the Hyperboreans or further still.
Olympian
A mythical people beyond the north wind, servants of Apollo, from whose land Heracles obtained the olive tree for the Olympic garland.
the olive which once the son of Amphitryon brought from the shady springs of the Danube, to be the most beautiful memorial of the Olympian contests, when he had persuaded the Hyperborean people, the servants of Apollo, with speech.
Pythian
A legendary, blessed people dwelling beyond the reach of ships or roads, free from sickness, old age, toil, and Nemesis, visited by both Perseus and (implicitly) celebrated as favorites of Apollo.
They wreathe their hair with golden laurel branches and revel joyfully.
Neither by ship nor on foot could you find the marvellous road to the meeting-place of the Hyperboreans—
Once Perseus, the leader of his people, entered their homes and feasted among them, when he found them sacrificing glorious hecatombs of donkeys to the god.