Editing Hyperborea (section)

===Later classical sources===
Plutarch, writing in the 1st century AD, mentions Heraclides of Ponticus, who connected the Hyperboreans with the [[Gauls]] who had sacked Rome in the 4th century BC (see [[Battle of the Allia]]).<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html |author=[[Plutarch]] |title=[[Parallel Lives]] |chapter=Life of Camillus |access-date=19 February 2021 |archive-date=13 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713102247/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus%2A.html |url-status=live |via=Bill Thayer's Web Site}}</ref>

[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], [[Diodorus Siculus]] and [[Stephen of Byzantium]] all recorded important ancient Greek sources on Hyperborea, but added no new descriptions.{{Sfn|Bridgman|2005|pp=63–173}}

The 2nd-century AD Stoic philosopher [[Hierocles (Stoic)|Hierocles]] equated the Hyperboreans with the Scythians, and the Riphean Mountains with the [[Ural Mountains]].{{Sfn|Bridgman|2005|p=86}} [[Clement of Alexandria]] and other early Christian writers also made this same Scythian equation.<ref>{{Cite book |author=[[Clement of Alexandria]] |title=[[Stromata]] |at=iv. xxi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=[[Clement of Alexandria]] |title=[[Protrepticus (Clement)|Protrepticus]]. |at=II}}</ref>