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Amber Tears
ancient Greek ethnography
ancient Mediterranean contacts
Apolline Cult
Apollonius Rhodius
Aral Sea
Author_Timothy P. Bridgman
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celtic
Celtic Lands
Celtic studies
classical literature analysis
colonization
cultural identity formation
De Natura Animalium
edge
Elysian Plain
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Eridanus River
Golden Age Utopia
Golden Race
greek
Greek Colonization
Greek myth interpretation in history
Heraclea Pontica
heraclides
Heraclides Ponticus
historia
Home Town
Hyperborean Maidens
Jutland Peninsula
lands
Malian Gulf
Megara Hyblaea
Mont Lassois
Mount Haemus
Mythical Prehistory
mythological historiography
naturalis
Naturalis Historia
ponticus
Scythian Lands
White Poplar
world
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415969789
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Timothy P. Bridgman received his Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin. Publications include "Who Were the Cimmerians?" (Hermathena 164 [1998] 31-64), "Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica : A Mythology of Greek Expansion in Celtic Lands" ( PHCC 21, forthcoming), and "Les Romains et l'Irlande: Invasion, Conquete ou Commerce?" (in Hommages a Monique Clavel-Leveque, Annales Litteraires de l'Universite de Franche-Comte a Besancon, forthcoming).
