Description |
1 online resource (xx, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Studies in classics
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Studies in classics (Routledge (Firm))
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-235) and index. |
Contents |
Inventing mythical Greek time -- From the beginnings to the second purification of Delos -- From Herodotus to Antimachus of Colophon -- The fourth century and beyond -- Antimachus of Colophon -- Heraclides Ponticus -- Hecataeus of Abdera -- Apollonius of Rhodes -- Posidonius of Apamea. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Literature and history -- Greece.
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Literature and history. |
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Greece. |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature. |
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Historiography -- Greece.
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Historiography. |
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Celts -- Historiography.
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Celts -- Historiography. |
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Celts. |
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Celts in literature.
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Celts in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bridgman, Timothy P., 1955- Hyperboreans. New York : Routledge, 2005 0415969786 (DLC) 2004014066 (OCoLC)55738657 |
ISBN |
0203487656 (electronic book) |
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9780203487655 (electronic book) |
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0415969786 (Cloth) |
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