In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified nation in the northern lands beyond Scythia. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria ? "beyond the Boreas (north wind)" ? was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day. Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling. Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live. :(Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode, Richmond Lattimore, translator). Reaching such exotic lands is never easy; Pindar cautioned: Never on land or by sea will you find the marvelous road to the feast of the

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