Cissus (Mygdonia)
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Cissus or Kissos (Ancient Greek: Κισσός , Modern Greek Chortiatis[1]), was a town and mountain[2] of Amphaxitis[3], Macedon, not far from Rhaecelus, which appears to have been the name of the promontory where Aeneas legendarily founded his city. (Lycophr. 1236.) Cissus, along with Aeneia and Chalastra, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica(315 BC). (Strab. Epit. vii. p. 330; Dionys. i. 49.) Cissus was the birth place of Cisseus, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer.[4]
There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear. (Xenoph. De Venat. xi. 1.)
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856).
- ^ Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3515067590
- ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854)
- ^ Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer[1]
- ^ John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page 238.
