Cissus (Mygdonia)

Cissus or Kissos (Ancient Greek: Κισσός)^[1] was a town^[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]

Macedonia and the Chalcidice

There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, now called Mount Chortiatis,^[1] on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.^[7]

References

1. Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3-515-06759-0
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854)
3. Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer Archived 2007-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
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.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cissus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.