JASO´NIUM
JASO´NIUM (
Ἰασώνιον), a promontory on the
[p. 2.5]coast of Pontus, 130 stadia to the north-east of Polemonium; it is the most projecting cape on that coast, and forms the terminating point of the chain of Mount Paryadres.
It was believed to have received its name from the fact that Jason had landed there. (
Strab. xii. p.548; Arrian,
Peripl. p. 17; Anonym.
Peripl. p. 11;
Ptol. 5.6.4; Xenoph.
Anab. 6.2.1, who calls it
Ἰασονία ἀκτή.) It still bears the name
Jasoon, though it is more commonly called Cape
Bona or
Vona, from a town of the same name. (Hamilton,
Researches, vol. i. p. 269.) The
Asineia, called a Greek acropolis by Scylax (p. 33), is probably no other than the Jasonium.
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