Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAP. XI
- CHAP. XII
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
CHAP. IV
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAP. XI
- CHAP. XII
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
Summary
On the Hyperboreans, and their connexion with the worship of Apollo.
1. Wearisome as it is to follow up the chain of remote events which gave rise to the wide diffusion of the worship of Apollo, nevertheless the fable of the Hyperboreans, by referring a number of particular circumstances to one head, is very well qualified to arrest and fix our attention.
We assert, then, the connexion of this tradition with the original worship of Apollo. No argument to the contrary can be drawn from its not being mentioned either in the Iliad or Odyssey; these poems not affording any opportunity for its introduction. Moreover, the Hyperboreans were spoken of in the poem of the Epigoni, and by Hesiod.
The fable, indeed, may not have come till late within the province of poetical mythology; as a local tradition it must have arisen whilst that primitive connexion between the temples of Tempe, Delphi, and Delos (which was afterwards entirely dissolved) still existed in full vigour.
2. According to a Doric hymn of Bœo, a poetess of Delphi, quoted by Pausanias, Pagasus, and the godlike Agyieus, the sons of the Hyperboreans, founded the celebrated oracle at Delphi. Agyieus is merely another name for Apollo himself. Fagasus refers to the Pagasæan temple on the sacred road.
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- History and Antiquities of the Doric Race , pp. 294 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1830