Cissus (Mygdonia)

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

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^ 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 Archived 2007-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ 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.