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 birth place 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 (1854–57). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. 

1. ^ Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3515067590
2. ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854)
3. ^ Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer[1]
4. ^ Lycophron 1236.
5. ^ Strabo Epit. vii. p. 330; Dionys. i. 49.
6. ^ John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page 238.
7. ^ Xenophon De Venat. xi. 1.