Mandane (Cilicia)

Mandane (Ancient Greek: Μανδάνη) was a town on the coast of ancient Cilicia, between Celenderis, and Cape Pisidium or Posidium (modern Kızıl Burun),[1] from which it was only 7 stadia distant.[2] William Smith conjectured it to be the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda mentioned by Pliny the Elder;[3] and if so, it must also be identical with the town of Myus (Μυούς) mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax between Nagidus and Celenderis.[4] Modern scholarship does not accept the identity.[5]

Mandane is located near Akyaka in Asiatic Turkey.[6][5]

  1. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  2. ^ Stadiasmus Maris Magni §§ 174, 175.
  3. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.27.
  4. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mandane". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  5. ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 66, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  6. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.