Category: Eastern Sea

A number of texts suggest that the Arimaspeia included a description of an eastern sea, equivalent to the southwest part of the Caspian Sea.

Herodotos on Aristeas’ account of his journey

 Posted in Arimasps, Author and poem, Eastern Sea, Extracorporeal travel, Griffins, Hyperboreans, Issedones, Kimmerians, Rhipai mountains, Seizure and possession, Skythians

And Aristeas son of Kaustrobios, a man of Prokonnesos, composed verses saying he reached the Issedones while seized by Apollo; and dwelling above the Issedones, the one-eyed Arimasps-men; and above them, the gold-guarding griffins; and…

Simias on reaching Hyperborea, the Massagetai, the Kampasos river and half-dog men

 Posted in Eastern Sea, Extracorporeal travel, Hyperboreans, Kampasos, Massagetai

And up to the rich country of the far-away Hyperboreans, with whom once ago banqueted hero king Perseus. And there where the Massagetai, riders of swift horses, dwell confident in their quick-shooting bows.And I came…