Cissus or Kissos (Ancient Greek: Κισσός) was a town of Amphaxitis, Macedon, not far from Rhaecelus, which appears to have been the name of the promontory where Aeneas legendarily founded his city. Cissus, along with Aeneia and Chalastra, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica (315 BC). Cissus was the birthplace of Cisseus, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer.
There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, now called Mount Chortiatis, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.
References
- ^ 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.
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.
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