Cynossema
Κυνὸς σῆμα
Cynossema (Κυνὸς σῆμα, or Κυνόσσημα), that is, the Dog's Tomb, a promontory on the eastern coast of the Thracian Chersonesus, near the town of Madytus; it was believed to have derived its name from the fact that Hecuba, who had been metamorphosed into a dog, was buried there. (Eur. Hec. 1275; Thuc. 8.102; Strab. p. 595; Plin. Nat. 4.18; Mela, 2.2; Ov. Met. 13.569)
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.