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Abaris

Abaris was a Scythian or Hyperborean priest and prophet of Apollo, who is said to have visited Greece about 770 BC, or two or three centuries later, fleeing a plague in Scythia. According to the legend, he travelled throughout the country, living without food and riding on a golden arrow, the gift of the god Apollo; he healed the sick, foretold the future, worked miracles, and delivered Sparta from a plague. The magical arrow gave Abaris the power to fly, cure the sick, be invisible, and prophesy[?]. He is said to have given the arrow to Pythagoras. Suidas credits Abaris with several works: Scythian oracles, the visit of Apollo to the Hyperboreans, expiatory formulas, and a prose theogony.

based on an article from a 1911 encyclopedia



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