Category: Rhipai mountains
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, SkythiansAnd Aristeas son of Kaustrobios, a man of Prokonnesos, composed verses saying he reached the Issedones while seized by Apollo, and that dwelling above the Issedones were one-eyed Arimasps-men, and above them, the gold-guarding griffins,…
Damastes on Skythians, Issedones, Arimasps, the Rhipai and Hyperboreans
Posted in Arimasps, Hyperboreans, Issedones, Rhipai mountains, SkythiansHyperboreoi: a nation. […] And Damastes in his On Nations: that the Issedones lived up from the Skythians; and the Arimasps further up from them; and up from the Arimasps the Rhipai mountains, from which…