Cissus (Mygdonia)
For other uses, see Cissus (disambiguation).
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.[4] Cissus, along with Aeneia and Chalastra, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica (315 BC).[5] Cissus was the birthplace of Cisseus, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer.[6]
There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.[7]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ↑ Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3-515-06759-0
- ↑ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854)
- ↑ Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer
- ↑ Lycophron 1236.
- ↑ Strabo Epit. vii. p. 330; Dionys. i. 49.
- ↑ John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page 238.
- ↑ Xenophon De Venat. xi. 1.
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