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KYDNOS

Greek Name

Κυδνος

Transliteration

Kydnos

Latin Spelling

Cydnus

Translation

River Cydnus

KYDNOS (Cydnus) was a river-god of Kilikia (Cilicia) in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

The River Kydnos had its headwaters in the Tarsos (Tarsus) Mountains on the Kilikian border with Syria and flowed into the Mediterranean near the city of Tarsos. The most important neighbouring rivers were the Lamos to the west and the Syrian Orontes in the south-east.

PARENTS

Presumably OKEANOS & TETHYS

OFFSPRING

THE KYDNIDES (Nonnus Dionysiaca 24.102)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 102 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"The daughters of Kydnos (Cydnus) [i.e. Naiades], the River that loved Zephryos (the West Wind) . . . these his father had given to Bakkhos (Bacchus) [Dionysos] for victory in the Indian War."

SOURCES

GREEK

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