Cisthene

Cisthēnē, ēs, f. , et Cisthēna, æ, f. , ville dʼÉolide : Plin. 5, 122 ; Mela 1, 91 [noté Cistena d. le t. de Frick].

CISTHENE

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 (Plin. Nat. 5.30).

The Gorgoneian plains of Cisthene (Aesch. Prom. Vinct. 5.795) are unknown.

2.

[MEGISTE] [G.L]

Cisthēné

(Κισθήνη). (1) A mythical plain mentioned in the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus (v. 799) as the abode of the Gorgons.

(2) A town on the coast of Mysia.

(3) A town on the coast of Lycia.