Pordoselene

Asia Minor, which was also called Prodoselene.^[2][3] Strabo says that some, in order to avoid the dirty allusion presented by this name, as pordos means fart in Greek, called it Poroselene,^[4] which is the form employed by Ptolemy,^[5] Pliny the Elder,^[6] and Aelian.^[7] At a still later time the name was changed into Proselene, under which form the town appears as a bishop's see.^[8] Aristotle mentions the town in his History of Animals where it was on the extremity of a road that formed the border between an area of the island that contained weasels and another area that did not have them.^[9]

Aeolic dialect) and Pordoselene were a single city or if they are two different cities.^[1]

Asia Minor may be the location of Pordoselene, although the second possibility seems to prevail since the archeology and the low fertility of Maden Adası does not show that there has been an old settlement there.^[10][11][1] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equate Nasos and Pordoselene.^[10]