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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822860503321

Autore

Bridgman Timothy P.

Titolo

Hyperboreans : Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts / / by Timothy P. Bridgman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-87977-X

0-203-94316-3

1-280-28192-8

9786610281923

0-203-48765-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Studies in classics Hyperboreans

Classificazione

15.51

15.70

Disciplina

880.915

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism

Celts in literature

Mythology, Greek, in literature

Literature and history - Greece

Celts - Historiography

Historiography - Greece

Celts - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Inventing Greek Mythical Time; 2. From the Beginnings to the Second Purification of Delos; 3. From Herodotus to Antimachus of Colophon; 4. The Fourth Century and Beyond; 5. Antimachus of Colophon; 6. Heraclides Ponticus; 7. Hecataeus of Abdera; 8. Apollonius of Rhodes; 9. Posidonius of Apamea; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.