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Abaris the Hyperborean
Abaris the Hyperborean (Greek: , ''Abaris Hyperboreios''), son of Seuthes, was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, near the Caucasus,〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' v. 86〕 which he fled during a plague. He was said to be endowed with the gift of prophecy, and by this as well as by his Scythian dress and simplicity and honesty he created great sensation in Greece, and was held in high esteem.〔Strabo, ''Geographica'' (7.3.8. )〕
==Legend==
According to Herodotus he was said to have traveled around the world with an arrow〔"Hence the dart of Abaris" (''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'')〕 symbolizing Apollo, eating no food.〔Herodotus, ''Histories'' 4.36〕 Heraclides Ponticus wrote that Abaris flew on it. Plato (''Charmides'' 158C) classes him amongst the "Thracian physicians" who practice medicine upon the soul as well as the body by means of "incantations" (''epodai''). A temple to Persephone at Sparta was attributed to Abaris by Pausanias (9.10). Alan H. Griffiths compares Abaris to Aristeas in terms of being a "shamanistic missionary and savior-figure" and notes Pindar places Abaris during the time of Croesus.
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