7. 6. ZLATNORUNA ARGONAUTIKA
. Nedavno na moju objavu o narodnom predanju postojanja jezera u Svrljiškoj kotlini po kome su plovile lađe cara Konstantina Velikog stiže komentar :"
Alma AleksandraJa sam od starih ljudi čula priču da je postojalo jezero od Leskovca do Doljevca, koje je nestalo prilikom neke katastrofe, pretpostavljam poslednjeg potopa u ovom kraju. " Bilo je to baš ono što mi je trebalo za potvrdu postojanja jezera na toku Južne Morave , koje Apolonije u Argonautici imenuje Kronovim morem . Da bi Kronovo more dosezalo do Leskovca i naredne klisure u njemu je nivo vode morao da bude bar 240 metara nadmorske visine .
Kolšani napokon tada u Kronovo izbiše more
Te im, da ne mognu umać, odasvud prepriječiše pute.
Oni pak za njima rijekom doploviše te se do dvaju
Probiše otoka bliskih Artemidinih u Briga .330
Sveti bijaše hram najednom od njih, pa mnoštva
Apsirtova se kloneć, iskrcaše se na drugi.
Jer su otokeone sred mnogih pustili prazne
Bojeć se Zeusove kćeri, dok svi su ostali tada.
Krcati Kolšanima, zatvarali prolaze morske. 335
Tako je on i na žale kraj otoka smjestio ljudstvo
Sve do rijeke čak Salangona i nestejske zemlje.
Onda se Kolhiđani u Kronovom moru pojave i odsjeku svaku stazu kojom bi Argoplovci mogli umaći . Junaci putovahu uzvodno za njima te izađu kod dva nedaleka briška otoka koja bjehu zavješćana Artemidi . Na jednom od tih bješe tamo svetilište , pa se Argonauti na drugom iskrcaju , tako izbjegavši Apsirtovu veliku silu , jer budući su ondje bili mnogi okolni otoci držao se podalje ovijeh štujući Zeusovu kćerku , ali napuči ostale svojim Kolhiđanima čuvajući morske prolaze Štoviše , Apsirt velike snage postavi na obale pobliže otocima sve do rjeke Salangina i nestijske zemlje ča bijaše uokolo toga .
Prevod Branimira Štulića
then indeed the Colchians went forth into the Cronian sea and cut off all the ways, to prevent their foes’ escape. And the heroes came down the river behind and reached the two Brygean isles of Artemis near at hand. Now in one of them was a sacred temple; and on the other they landed, avoiding the host of Apsyrtus; for the Colchians had left these islands out of many within the river, just as they were, through reverence for the daughter of Zeus; but the rest, thronged by the Colchians, barred the ways to the sea. And so on other islands too, close by, Apsyrtus left his host as far as the river Salangon and the Nestian land.
тада су Колхијани изашли у Кронско море и прекинули све путеве како би спречили бекство својих непријатеља. А јунаци су сишли низ реку иза себе и стигли до два бригејска острва Артемида близу руке. Сада је у једном од њих био свети храм; а с друге су слетели, избегавајући домаћина Апсирта; јер су Колхијани напустили ова острва са многих унутар реке, баш као и они, поштовањем према ћерки Зевсовој; али остали, које су Колхијаци прегазили, забранили су му путеве до мора. И тако је и на другим острвима, изблиза, Апсиртус напустио свог домаћина све до реке Салангон и нестијске земље.
Engleski prevod
U nastavku :
-Udari on kraj hrama uvrebav ga, što su ga negda
Sazdali otprijeko Brigi Artemidi, okolni živalj.
- blizu hrama kojeg Brigi što na kopnu nasuprot žive tu Artemidi izgrade .
-hard by the temple which the Brygi on the mainland opposite had once built for Artemis.

Sl. 71. Prikaz Kronovog mora i njegovih obala gdje su živjeli Brigi
Apolonije dovodi Argonaute do ostrva na kome Brigi , koji preko na kopnu žive , podigoše hram Artemidi . U šturim informacijama o Balkanskim Brigima iz istorijskih izvora saznajemo da oni žive sjeverno od Makedonije , sve do Ilirskih planina i Dardanaca .
The literary tradition enables us to put an ancient name to the Lausitz invaders . In the summary of Eugammon`s Telegony ,which was composed in the sixth century but drewupon traditional epic material , we learn that Odysseus commanded the Thesprotians at first unsuccessfully against the Brygi , after he had returned to Ithaca , i.e. in the decade c. 1180-1170 b.c. In the foundation legend of Epidamnus , in which the proto-Corinthian occupants are enumerated ( Appian , BC ll , 39 ) , the Briges held the site after Heracles and before the Taulantii , `an Illyrian tribe`. The Briges were evidently regarded as not Illyrian . The early history of the Briges in Macedonian was well known , if we may judge from the incidental remarks made by Herodotus ( VII , 73 and VIII , 138 , 2-3 ) , that they lived nexst to the Macedones and had their capital below Mt Bermium , that is in the region between Edessa and Beroea , until they migrated to Asia . Even after the migration there were some Briges still inland of Epidamnus ( Ps.- Scymnus 434 ) and in northern Pelagonia , where one of their cities was called Brygae ( St. Byz. s.vv. Brygias and Bryx ) . These Briges of Europe were certainly related to the Phryges of Asia ; inteed times as chance finds ; curving-backed knives , bored battle-axesof three kinds ( not found in graves ) , slashing swords of Naue II type , leaf-shaped spearheads , and flame-shaped , all of bronze . This archaeological evidence puts the Lausitz invasion of the southeren Balkans in a claer perspective . The Lausitz invaders and their associates seem to have followed the same routes as the Goths under forward into Central Albania as far as Epidamnus and into some parts of northern Epirus . This initial phase fell in the period c. 1200-1150 b.c. The next stage ,beginning c. 1150 b.c., saw the conquest of Central Macedonia from the west via Edessa and perhaps from the middle Vardar valley via Kilinder . A recession occurred c. 1080 b.c. when they lost their two important bases east of the Vardar at Vardarophtsa and Vardina , but they expanded at about the same time to the south bank of the lower Haliiiacmon valley . In the period after 1080 b.c. they held most of Macedonia west of the Vardar , and also Pelagonia and Central Albania . With such a pattern of settlement it is clear that the economic centre of the invaders` reàlms lay in the western part of the central Macedonia plain .
When we relate the invasion of Macedonia by the Briges to the invasions of Mycenaean Greece in L.H. IIIb and IIIc , we see that the short-lived advance by Hyllus to the Isthmus c. 1220 b.c. in L.H. IIIb cannot have been due to pressure from the Briges who had not yet reached Macedonia . On the other hand , at the start of L.h. IIIc Odysseus faced the Briges on Western Macedonia and Epirus in the following decades which seems to have been an important factor in startihg the Thessali and the Dorians on their invasions , c. 1140 b.c. and c. 1120 b.c. respectively , and in ensouraging others to follow in their wake for another fifty years or so .
Vidimo iz ovih izvora da su Brigi sjeverno od Makedonije u neposredno vreme nakon Trojanskog rata , a de nedugo zatim prodiru južnije prema Makedoniji i centralnoj Albaniji , gdje ih pronalazimo u opisima dešavanja nakon tog vremena . Ali ostaju i na prostorima južne Bugarske i sudjeluju u dešavanjima :BRYGI
Eth. BRYGI (Eth. Βρύγοι), called BRIGES (Βρίγες) by the Macedonians, a Thracian people dwelling in Macedonia, north of Beroea in the neighbourhood of Mt. Bermius. They attacked the army of Mardonius, when he was marching through Macedonia into Greece in B.C. 492. (Hdt. 6.45, 7.73, 185; Strab. vii. pp. 295, 330; Steph. B. sub voce Βρίγες.) It was generally believed that a portion of this Thracian people emigrated to Asia Minor, where they were known under the name of Phrygians. (Hdt. 7.73; Strab. ll. cc.) [PHRYGIA] Stephanus mentions two Macedonian towns, Brygias (Βρυγίας) and Βρύγιον), which were apparently situated in the territory of the Brygi.
Some of the Brygi were also settled in Illyricum, where they dwelt apparently north of Epidamnus. Strabo assigns to them a town Cydriae. (Strab. vii. pp. 326, 327; Appian, App. BC 2.39.)
Brygi
(Βρύγοι) or Bryges (also Brugi and Bruges). A barbarous tribe in northern Macedonia, believed by the ancients to have been the ethnic source of the Phrygians; hence the name is sometimes use for Phryges. See Phrygia.
Osim potvrde da su Brigi živjeli na području istočno od Istra = Kronovog Mora = Južne Morave pronađoh jedan posebno zanimljiv detalj : In this region also are the mountains Hypsizorus, Epitus, Halcyone, and Leoomne; the towns of Nyssos49, Phryxelon, Mendæ, and what was formerly Potidæa50 on the isthmus of Pallene; u prevodu : У овом региону су и планине Хипсизорус, Епитус, Халционе и Леоомне; градови Ниссос49, Фрикелон, Мендӕ и оно што је некада било Потидӕа50 на истхмусу Паллене / Plinije. Nat. 4.17
U opisu sjeverozapadnog brdskog djela Balkanske Brigije u istoj Brigijskoj oblasi nalazila su se i dva grada - Frikelon i Mendea - , a pokraj njih NISSos . Velika vjerojatnoća da je taj grad NISSos bio u istoj oblasi gdje kasnije nastaje rimski N(a)ISSus .
Име града Ниша може се наћи у многобројним
историјским изворимаиз периода
средњег векадо
савременог доба. Сва та имена су врло слична, зависно од
језикана коме су записивана: Naissus, Nais, Nisus, Νισσα, Ναισσός, Νισος, Niş, Ниш.
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Sl. 72. Brzi Brod na mjestu dokle su stigli Argonauti u svojoj plovidbi po Kronovom moru
Brigijski grad Nissos u Niškoj regiji je prostor koji u potpunosti odgovara lokaciji na kojoj Apolonije opisuje najdalju tačku do koje su Argonauti stigli ploveći po Istru , Jonskom i Kronovom moru na njemu . Slučajno tu na toku Nišave nalazi se mjesto Brzi Brod koje , moguće , čuva sjećanje na tu tačku do koje su bili stgli Argonauti .
