Реки Рудон, Турунт и Хезин в античной традиции
The Rudon, the Turunt and the Hesin Rivers in the Antique Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The tradition to use ancient nomination for the Eastern European rivers in the Baltic basin had persisted within the period covering the classic antiquity, starting with the works of Hesiod, Aeschilus, Euripides and Herodotus, and till the latest interpolations in 16th—17th centuries. Most distinctly, this tradition is represented in Ptolemy’s works in the 2nd century AD, and Marcianus’s in the 4th century AD. From the west to the east, they mention: the Vistula, the Chron, the Rudon, the Turunt, the Hesin. They are the rivers: the Vistula, the Neman, the Western Dvina and the two water ways: the Turunt — starting from the Polota River to its falling into the Western Dvina, and further through the portage system to the upper reaches of the Velikaya River, then making a turn to the left and up along the Kudeb River, then through a portage system reaching the source of the Smolka River, further along the Bdyokha, and further through Chudskoe Lake reaching the Baltic area. The Hesin waterway starts from the source of the Lovat’ River to its confluence with the Ilmen’ Lake, then along the Volkhov River as far as its confluence with the Ladoga, and further along the Neva River as far as its confluence with the Baltic Sea. In this context, of some interest is Propertius’s account of the 1st century BC of some Venetian Eridanos, which is logically assumed to be the Eridanos-Rudon-Western Dvina.

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