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CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL STUDIES Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece A Philology of Worlds RENAUD GAGNÉ COSMOGRAPHYAND THE IDEA OF HYPERBOREA IN ANCIENT GREECE Cosmographyisdefinedhereastherhetoricofcosmology:theartofcomposing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religionandculturethroughoutAntiquity,offersaremarkablewindowintothe practiceofcomposingandreadingworlds.ThisbookfollowsHyperboreaacross genresandcenturies,bothasanexplorationoftheextraordinaryrecordofGreek thoughtonthatfurtherNorthandasacasestudyofancientcosmographyandthe anthropologicalphilologythattracksancientcosmography.Trajectoriesthrough themanyformsofGreekthoughtonHyperboreashedlightonkeyaspectsofthe cosmographyofcultandthecosmographyofliterature.Thephilologyofworlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyedthroughtherewritingsofoneidea.Thisisabookontheartofreading worldsslowly. renaudgagne´ isUniversityReaderinAncientGreekLiteratureandReligionat theUniversityofCambridgeandFellowofPembrokeCollege.Hehaspublished AncestralFaultinAncientGreece(Cambridge,2013);ChoralMediationsinGreek Tragedy(Cambridge,2013,withMarianneHopman);Sacrificeshumains(Liège, 2013, with Pierre Bonnechere); Regimes of Comparatism (Leiden, 2018, with Simon Goldhill and Geoffrey Lloyd); and Les dieux d’Homère II (Paris, 2019, withMiguelHerrero).In2015hereceivedthePhilipLeverhulmePrize. cambridge classical studies GeneralEditors j. p. t. clackson, w. m. beard, g. betegh, r. l. hunter, m. j. millett, s. p. oakley, r. g. osborne, t. j. g. whitmarsh COSMOGRAPHYAND THE IDEA OF HYPERBOREA IN ANCIENT GREECE APhilologyofWorlds RENAUDGAGNÉ UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108833233 doi:10.1017/9781108973755 ©FacultyofClassics,UniversityofCambridge2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-83323-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS ListofIllustrations pagevii Acknowledgements ix ListofAbbreviations xii Introduction:Cosmography 1 4 AHyperboreanTree 24 PhilologicalWorlds AppendixA:Pindar,Olympian3 77 PartI: SanctuariesofCosmography 81 1 HyperboreabetweenCultandSong 83 EpidēmiaandApodēmia 83 ΝικηφόροςΒορέω:ABoneTabletfromBerezan/Olbia 88 104 DelphicFoundations 117 DelosandtheHyperboreanMaidens AppendixB:Alcaeus’HymntoApollo 132 134 AppendixC:ReferencestoOlen 2 CosmographyandEpiphany 139 SeeingtheGod’sArrival 139 149 EpiphanicGeography 157 StoneEpiphanies 173 TheEastPedimentoftheAlcmaeonidTemple 180 ApolloandDionysus:PlutarchandDivineAlternance 186 PausaniasandtheGalatianShields PartII: Cosmography,PeriodsandGenres 201 3 TheWondrousRoad:ArchaicTravelNarrative 203 203 MappingTrajectoriesfromHyperborea ReachingHyperborea:Pindar,Pythian10andBacchylides3 213 226 HomericAntecedents? TheHesiodicPeriodosGēs 234 243 AristeasofProconnesus v Contents 4 HyperboreaandtheClassicalEconomies ofKnowledge 266 266 TragicCosmographies 278 ExpansionsofWisdom 282 PythagoreanAppropriations 294 EarlyProseCosmography 299 HerodoteanIncorporations 5 ImpossibleWorlds?HellenisticReconfigurations 320 320 TheArchiveandtheEncyclopaedists 332 VestigeandParody 338 NorthernUtopiasinAlexandriaandBabylon 367 CosmopoliticsandEschatologyinAthens Conclusion:FurtherTrajectories 387 387 TheArchiveStrikesBack 394 HyperboreansattheGates 410 ReadingWorldsSlowly Glossary 413 Bibliography 419 Indexlocorum 521 Generalindex 538 vi ILLUSTRATIONS I.1 Sawleymappamundi,12th-to13th-centuryCE,Corpus ChristiCollege,Cambridge,MS66,pt.1,image fromtheParkerLibrary. page33 I.2 AbrahamOrtelius,TheatriOrbisTerrarumParergon; SiveVeterisGeographiaeTabulae, CommentarijsGeographicisetHistoricis illustratae...BalthasarisMoreti,Antwerp,1624CE. 35 I.3 GerardusMercator,Septentrionaliumterrarum descriptio,Amsterdam,1623CE. 36 1.1 BonetabletfromBerezan/Olbia,IGDOP93, SideA↓,secondhalfofthe6thcenturyBCE,drawing fromDubois1996. 89 1.2 BonetabletfromBerezan/Olbia,IGDOP93, SideA↑,secondhalfofthe6thcenturyBCE,drawing fromDubois1996. 91 1.3 VotiveinscriptiononatilefoundintheWesterntemenos ofOlbia,IGDOP59,late6thcenturyBCE,drawing fromDubois1996 94 1.4 Votiveinscriptiononablack-glazedAtticvase foundinOlbia,IGDOP95,late4thcenturyBCE, drawingfromDubois1996. 100 1.5 BonetabletfromBerezan/Olbia,IGDOP93,SideB, secondhalfofthe6thcenturyBCE,drawingfrom Dubois1996. 101 2.1 ParianneckamphorafromMelos,c.650–630 BCE,NationalArchaeologicalMuseumofAthens 3961,imagefromtheDAIAthenFotothek. 154 2.2 CretancuirassfromOlympia,c.630–620 BCE,ArchaeologicalMuseumofOlympiaM394, imagefromtheDAIAthenFotothek. 156 vii ListofIllustrations 2.3 MetopefromSelinus,TempleY,mid-6thcentury BCE,MuseoarcheologicoregionalediPalermo AntoninoSalinas,N.I.3918,imageauthorised bytheAntoninoSalinasMuseum. 158 2.4 Metopesfromthenorthporchofthetempleof ApolloEpikouriosatBassai,c.420BCE,drawing fromMadigan1992. 161 2.5 EastpedimentoftheAlcmaeonidtempleofApollo atDelphi,late6thcenturyBCE,drawingfromdeLa Coste-Messelière1938a. 174 3.1 P.Oxy.1358,fr.2,CambridgeUniversityLibrary,add. Ms.6353,secondhalfofthe3rdcenturyCE,image fromtheUniversityLibrary,Cambridge. 237 4.1 LakoniankylixfromtheArkesilasPainter,mid-6th centuryBCE,MuseoGregorianoEtrusco,Inv. No.16592,imagefromAlamy. 274 6.1 Herefordmappamundi,c.1300CE,image fromAlamy. 403 viii
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