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KATHARINA WESSELMANN

Christian‐Albrechts‐University, Kiel

Hyperborean shaman, sometimes described as a prophet, healer, and magician (e.g., Pl. Chrm. 158b; Iambl. VP 91). PINDAR (F270 S‐M) makes Abaris a contemporary of CROESUS. He is also supposed to have been a pupil of Pythagoras (Iambl. VP 90–93), to whom he gave the arrow of APOLLO, upon which he had flown to Greece. This same legend is alluded to by Herodotus, who, in his brief discussion of HYPERBOREANS, says he will not tell the story of Abaris having carried the arrow over the whole world without needing nutrition (4.36.1).

SEE ALSO: Geography; Maps; Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus