Cisthene
Κισθήνη
Cisthene (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 (5.30).
The Gorgoneian plains of Cisthene (Aesch. Prom. Vinct. 5.795) are unknown.
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From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.