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Некоторые мотивы египетского прошлого в «Аргонавтике» Аполлония Родосского
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In the poem *Argonautica* by Apollonius of Rhodes, there is the following passage (IV. 253-290): Argus speaks of the route for the Argonauts’ return home, discovered by “priests… those who left Tritonian Thebes,” at a time when the “sacred race of the Danaans” was still unknown and the descendants of Deucalion did not yet rule Hellas. This route is inscribed “on three-sided pillars” in Aeaea, a city founded, along with others, by an ancient king of Egypt during his conquests in Europe and Asia: it leads through the Ister, which supposedly splits into “two streams” so that one flows into the Euxine Pontus and the other into the bay of the “Trinacrian Sea.” Already the scholia to this passage pointed out that the aforementioned ruler is known by the names Sesonchosis or Sesostris (Hdt. II. 102-110); the mention of “three-sided pillars” undoubtedly reinterprets information about the stelae he supposedly set up in conquered lands (id. 103; Diod. I. 55; Manetho. Frg. 34.3, 35.3, 36.3), and the account of the founding of Aeaea goes back to the conviction of ancient tradition that the inhabitants of Colchis descended from Egyptians who settled there under this king (Hdt. II. 103-104; Diod. Ibid.). The placement of his reign in remote antiquity suggests that Apollonius relied not on the account of Herodotus, who places him shortly before the Trojan War, but rather on that of Hecataeus of Abdera, whose work is transmitted by Diodorus. In doing so, Apollonius follows the rare opinion that the Argonauts returned via the Ister, rather than the Phasis or Tanais and then through the Ocean (Schol. Apol. Rhod. IV. 259, 284; Diod. IV. 56). The Phasis and Tanais were considered boundaries of the ancient Egyptian king’s conquests; the Ister, which according to Apollonius reaches “the Thracian and Scythian peoples,” can be considered such a boundary in light of the accounts of Hecataeus and Diodorus regarding this king’s advance into Europe as far as Thrace (Diod. I. 55). It is possible that Apollonius indirectly actualized the motif of this legendary boundary of Egyptian possessions during the reign of Ptolemy II, who was vying for influence in Europe during the Chremonidean War of 267–261 BCE.