Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
ABARIS , a Scythian or Hyperborean, See also:priest and See also:prophet of See also:Apollo, who is said to have visited See also:Greece about 770 B.C., or two or three centuries later . According to the See also:legend, he travelled throughout the See also:country, living without See also:food and See also:riding on a See also:golden arrow, the See also:gift of the See also:god ; he healed the sick, foretold the future, worked miracles, and delivered See also:Sparta from a See also:plague (See also:Herod. iv . 36 ; See also:Iamblichus, De Vii . Pythag. xix . 28) . Suidas credits him with several 'See also:works : Scythian oracles, the visit of Apollo to the See also:Hyperboreans, expiatory formulas and a See also:prose theogony . |
|
|
[back] PIETRO ABANO |
[next] ABATED |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.