Cissus (Mygdonia) Explained

Cissus or Kissos (grc|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]

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]

Notes and References

1. Studies in the Ancient Greek PolisPage 124 By Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Page 628 by W. Smith (1854)
3. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0114.html Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer
4. [Lycophron]
5. [Strabo]
6. John Cramer, A Geographic and Historical Description of Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press, 1828), page 238.
7. [Xenophon]