Cissus or Kissos was a town and mountain of Amphaxitis

Amphaxitis

Amphaxitis was called the west maritime Mygdonia district of ancient Macedonia, on Axius river....

, Macedon

Macedon

Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south....

, not far from Rhaecelus

Rhaecelus

Rhaecelus or Rhaikelos was an Eretrian colony in Lower Macedonia, near Aeneia, founded by Athenian tyrant Peisistratos...

, which appears to have been the name of the promontory where Aeneas

Aeneas

Aeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...

 legendarily founded his city. Cissus, along with Aeneia

Aeneia

Aeneia or Aineia , was an ancient Greek city in northwesternmost Chalcidice, said to have been founded by Aeneas, and was situated, according to Livy, opposite Pydna, and 15 miles from Thessalonica...

 and Chalastra

Chalastra

Chalastra is a town and was a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delta, of which it is a municipal unit. The town is located 20 km west from the city of Thessaloniki, on the north side of Greek...

, contributed to the aggrandizement of Thessalonica(315 BC

315 BC

Year 315 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Philo...

). Cissus was the birth place of Cisseus

Cisseus

In Greek mythology, Cisseus was a Thracian king and father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, as related in Homer's Iliad. His wife was Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy....

, a Thracian chief mentioned by Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

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There was also a mountain of the same name nearby, on which were found the lion, ounce, lynx, panther, and bear.