home of Boreas." [8] Homer placed Boreas in Thrace , and therefore Hyperborea in his opinion was somewhere to the north of Thracian territory, perhaps Dacia . [9] Sophocles ( Antigone , 980-987), Aeschylus ( Agamemnon , 193; 651), Simonides of Ceos (Schol. on Apollonius Rhodius, 1. 121) and Callimachus (