POSSIBLE THRACIAN AND SCYTHIAN INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEGEND OF THE ARGEAD DYNASTY'S ORIGIN
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https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v9i4.800Keywords:
Argead dynasty, ancient Macedonia, legend, Thrace, Scythia, iconography, goat, AigaiAbstract
The article is dedicated to the question of how the legend about the emergence of the Argead dynasty was formed. The paper studies written ancient sources, as well as numismatics, which are associated to the legend about the Macedonian royal house. The article raises the question of the emergence of an etymological connection between the Greek word goat (αἶξ) and the first Macedonian capital, Aigai. Attention is also drawn between the similarities of the images of a goat in the Scythian, Thracian and Macedonian cultures, as well as to the congeniality of evidence of written tradition in describing the founding of Macedonian and Scythian dynasties. Based on the studied material, the author comes to the conclusion about the possible Thracian and Scythian influence on the formation of the myth about the origin of the Argead dynasty.Downloads
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