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See also: Abaris

Abaris ( Αβάρις Υπερβορέος / Abáris Hyperboréos at Plato) is a semi-legendary character of the ancient, priest of Apollon, alive Greece before the Trojan War, or following other traditions, time of Pythagore.

Scythian or hyperborean, it travels by all the Greece, and is especially made admire with Athens. It was said that it had received from Apollo a flying arrow with which it crossed the airs, and the gift of divination; one allotted also very large knowledge to him in medicine, and Plato looks it like a large Master in the art of the incantations. It is a representative of the wisdom of the Barbarians, whose contemporaries of Hérodote already started to get excited, and of the mystical, expensive purifications with the orphic and the pythagoricians. One made circulate under his name quantity of works apocryphal books, inter alia Catharmes expiatory or formulas, scythic Oracles , a Théogonie in prose…

Artistic evocations

Branch, in its opera Boréades (1764), takes as a starting point this figure: Abaris is there large priest of Apollo (and wire hidden of the god), loved of the queen Alphise, constraint to choose for husband one of wire of Borée. Its magic arrow is used to him to overcome the Boréades.

Sources

(IV, 2-36).
Plato, Charmide .
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