ИСТОКИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ МИФА О ПРОИСХОЖДЕНИИ МАКЕДОНСКОЙ ДИНАСТИИ АРГЕАДОВ
THE ORIGINS OF THE MYTH ABOUT THE ARGEAD DYNASTY

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the question of how the legend about the emergence of the Argead dynasty was formed. The work examines written ancient sources, as well as numismatics, which are associated with the legend of the appearance of the Argead dynasty. The author draws attention to the similarity of the Scythian, Thracian and Macedonian iconography of coins, as well as to the similarity of the evidence of the written tradition when describing the founding of dynasties. The author comes to the conclusion about the possible Thracian and Scythian influence on the formation of the myth about the origin of the Argeads.

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