CISTHE´NE
CISTHE´NE (
Κισθήνη).
1.
A town on the coast of Mysia, deserted in Strabo's time (p. 606).
It lay outside of the bay of Adramyttium and the promontory Pyrrha.
It had a port. Cisthene was north of Atarneus.
It is mentioned by Mela (1.18) and Pliny (
5.30).
The Gorgoneian plains of Cisthene (Aesch.
Prom. Vinct. 5.795) are unknown.
2.
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