The Hyperboreans. A study in the Paleo-balkan tradion, Цвете Лазова, УИ „Св. Климент Охридски”, 1996

The Hyperboreans. A study in the Paleo-balkan tradion

Автор: Цвете Лазова
Раздел: Антична история, Българска история на чужди езици
Издателство: УИ „Св. Климент Охридски”
Народност: българска
ISBN: 199618012013
първо издание, 1996 год.
меки корици, 88 стр.
Цена: 7,00 лв

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The proposed book owes its topic to the constant interest among scholars of Thracian culture in the Hyperborean problems. The study is an attempt to update the possibilities of presenting the characteristics of the Hyperboreans through the stories about them in the ancient literature. The method of study adopted emphasizes the outlining of realia in the ancient narratives and legends, which existed under the conditions of a cultural tradition attested in the vast area of the Balkans, the Aegean islands, Asia Minor, Crete. Southern Italy and Sicily, referred to as the Palaeo-Balkan region by many academics, predominantly linguists. The discussed realia'are rooted in the cults and rituals inherent to the area mentioned above, and their retransmission created conditions for the shaping of different narratives. In this sense, the proposed research offers prospects for future studies on :he cult, ritual and the narratives related to them in the oral tradition of the Palaeo-Balkan area. The reality of cults and rituals created prerequisites for the formation of a new common basis out of which both typically Thracian realia, transmitted through the literary tradition of the Greeks, and realia intrinsic to the Greek cultural tradition developed.

The first chapter focuses on the diverse nature of the narratives and legends connected with the Hyperboreans, with the aim of suggesting that the study of the essential characteristics around which the stories of the Greeks gravitated requires a method through which it would be possible to attain a greater cohesion among the legends about the Hyperboreans in the ancient literary tradition. The second chapter offers an opportunity to outline essential elements on the basis of the cults and rituals, which gave rise in the course of retelling to very diverse stories about the Hyperboreans, connected both with the culture of the Thracians and with the Greek cultural tradition. The third chapter is an attempt to seek sufficiently discernible traces of the presented cult and ritual atmosphere in legendary, mainly biographical narratives connected with the figures of Abaris (Scythia), Aristeas (Prokonnesos), Hermotimus (Clazomenai), Formio and Leonymos (Croton), Empedocles (Sicily), Epimenides (Crete), Aesop (Thrace-Phrygia), Anacharsis (Scythia) and Pythagoras (Samos), localized by the legends in the cited areas of the so-called Palaeo-Balkan region.