Венария - часть 2.

[sibeaster]

Первые помещения музея я рекомендую пробегать, все самое интересное начинается с зала Дианы.
Венария, как и ранее виденный нами Ступиниджи, изначально задумывалась в качестве охотничьей резиденции, а потому тема охоты здесь преобладает. Вот и центральный зал, выходящий окнами и в парадный двор, и в парк, освящен назван в честь богини -

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[j_j_j]

о, и тут же нашел, об основании Александрии:
"XXXI. And when he had seen this vision in his dream, and had quitted the land of the Amondikaye (?), a stag came towards him. When he saw that stag, he turned round and said to his nobles, “ If it be granted me to build a city in this land of Egypt, when I command and shoot an arrow at this stag, it shall strike it.” And having taken the weapon, he shot an arrow at the stag, but the arrow glanced off the stag in its rapid flight, and having run a long distance it stumbled and fell by reason of the wound, and died on the spot. Then Alexander cried out and said, “0 thou that didst die without feeling, thou hast shewn me the place which I equire therefore to this very day they call the spot upon which the stag died, “ He that died without feeling.”
So Alexander ran and came to that spot, and on this side of the stag a sepulchral monument was built, and they call it, “ The tomb of the god Aslis (Osiris) 2 .” In this place too he commanded to offer sacrifices; and from thence he returned and came to the stag 3 , and he found a large mound, and fifteen (twelve) towns
lay around it, the names of which were: Stilimos, Pahhara, Imthaos, Aklios, Inokpilas, Pithonos, Lindos, Kiphrin, Espasid, Mimistira, Philaos, and Hankitos in the centre of the mound, which they called “ the great city. ” And when Alexander saw this, astonishment laid hold of him at the waters which were encircling the villages; and he wondered at the greatness of the waves how marvellous they were, for although they entered the sea, they did not mingle [therewith]. And he found there also a place which they called Melaa, and its waters used to enter the sea one cubit and make a great commotion. Then Alexander asked, “ What is this place ? and who built it ?” And they said to him, “ First of all Dios, whom they call Zens, and next Irthaos (?).” And from these towns twelve rivers went forth and mingled with the sea. And Alexander saw that the greater number of these rivers, as well as the springs of the city, had been stopped up, and that all the streets and squares were destroyed; and there only remained two rivers which were not obstructed, and whose place of outlet was not destroyed, and whose mouth mingled with the sea: the name of the one was
Lukthesnedos, which great river they call that of the god Serapis (this Serapis is Joseph the son of Jacob, whom the Egyptians used to hold as a god 1 ), and from it there went forth another which they call Okorida (or Eukorida), and yet another large stream which they call Klidnava; and the name of the other great river was Nuphirtir 2 . When Alexander saw that spot around which mighty rivers and large streams ran, he remembered the dream which the god Ammon shewed him, and he saw that there were fifteen (twelve) towns upon that one spot." (ALEXANDER THE GREAT, BEING THE SYRIAC VERSION OF THE PSEUDO-CALLISTHENES https://archive.org/stream/historyofalexand00pseu/historyofalexand00pseu_djvu.txt)

[sibeaster]

Ну, вот теперь все понятнее стало! Эх не было тогда Гринписа на этого тщеславного Александра)))