Editing Hyperborea (section)

===Herodotus===
The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail, [[Herodotus]]' ''Histories'' (Book IV, Chapters 32–36),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh4030.htm |title=The History of Herodotus, parallel English/Greek: Book 4: Melpomene: 30 |access-date=14 March 2011 |archive-date=28 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183558/http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh4030.htm |url-status=live |via=[[Internet Sacred Text Archive]] }}</ref> dates from {{circa|450 BC}}.{{Sfn|Bridgman|2005|pp=27–31}} Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that supposedly mentioned the Hyperboreans, including [[Hesiod]] and [[Homer]], the latter purportedly having written of Hyperborea in his lost work ''[[Epigoni (epic)|Epigoni]]''. Herodotus voices doubts as to the attribution of the work to Homer.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Herodotus |title=[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]] |at=[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+4.32&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126 4.32]}}</ref>

Herodotus wrote that the 7th-century BC poet [[Aristeas]] wrote of the Hyperboreans in a poem (now lost) called ''Arimaspea'' about a journey to the [[Issedones]], who are estimated to have lived in the [[Kazakh Steppe]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Phillips |first=E. D. |title=The Legend of Aristeas: Fact and Fancy in Early Greek Notions of East Russia, Siberia, and Inner Asia |journal= [[Artibus Asiae]] |volume=18 |issue=2 |year=1955 |pages=161–77 [p. 166] |jstor=3248792 |doi=10.2307/3248792}}</ref> Beyond these lived the one-eyed [[Arimaspi]]ans, further on the gold-guarding [[griffin]]s, and beyond these the Hyperboreans.{{Sfn|Bridgman|2005|p=31}} Herodotus assumed that Hyperborea lay somewhere in [[Northeast Asia]].

[[Pindar]], lyric poet from [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] and a contemporary of Herodotus in the tenth Pythian Ode described the Hyperboreans and tells of [[Perseus]]' journey to them.

Other 5th-century BC Greek authors, like [[Simonides of Ceos]] and [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]], described or referenced the Hyperboreans in their works.{{Sfn|Bridgman|2005|p=61}}