ARISTOV (Aristeas)

Aristei, Aristeas, VI in BC. e., legendary servant of the god Apollo, called the author of the epic poem Arimaspeysky (Arimaspeia epe), where he described as in his journey to the north came to the territory of the people Issedones. Those told him about the other, more distant nations: one-eyed arimasps, guarding the gold elders and living on the edge of the world Hyperboreans. A Poem. read Aeschylus, Pindar, Hecataeus of Miletus, Gellenik, Herodotus, the anonymous author of an essay on hill. A. probably wrote some Theogony in prose.