Abaris redirects here. For the Baroque opera see
Les Boréades''' Abaris the Hyperborean (Αβάρις Υπερβορέος, Abaris Hyperboreos), 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, 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.
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[Greek] Abaris was a priest of Apollo who, with the help of that god, fled from Scythia (in the Caucasus) to Greece to avoid a plague. Apollo gave him a golden arrow which cured diseases and spoke oracles. The arrow also rendered the priest invisible and made him ride through the sky. Abaris later gave the dart to Pythagoras. He is mentioned by Herodotus and Pindar and surnamed 'the Hyperborean'.
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