Iardanus
The river Iardanus or Iardanes (
Ancient Greek
: Ἰάρδανος or Ἰαρδάνης) denoted two or three small rivers in classical antiquity.
An Iardanus in
Arcadians gathered in fight by the rapid river Celadon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanus. Strabo (VII.3.12) notes, in describing the coast of Elis "After Chelonatas comes the long sea-shore of the Pisatans; and then Cape Pheia. And there was also a small town called Pheia: 'beside the walls of Pheia, about the streams of Iardanus,'[1]
for there is also a small river near by. According to some, Pheia is the beginning of Pisatis."
In the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus. This is now named the Keritis River.
Yet in the 2nd century CE,
Notes
- ^ Quoting Homer.
- ^ Gordon, Before the Bible (London) 1962:284-85.
- ^ Edwin M. Yamauchi, "The Present Status of Mandaean Studies" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 25.2 (April 1966, pp. 88-96) p. 95f.
- ISBN 9789004052529.
References
- Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools
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