Jones of the Geography of Strabo, apparently from the Loeb Classical Library and availableįrom the Perseus Project, paragraph 12.3.10 reads:Īfter the Parthenius River, then, one comes to Amastris, a city bearing the same name as the woman who founded it. The reference, along with the references below to Strabo and Apollonius of Rhodes, is given in the cited work of Umar. These were they that held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, and had their famed dwellings around the river Parthenius and Cromna and Aegialus and lofty Erythini. Murray (first published 1924), lines 2.851–5, available from the Perseus Project, read thus:Īnd the Paphlagonians did Pylaemenes of the shaggy heart lead from the land of the Eneti, whence is the race of wild she-mules. ^ In the Loeb Classical Library translation of Homer's Iliad by A.^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §K399.12.Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition. ^ a b Article 'Cide' in the cited work of Umar.^ Article 'Gideros' in Umar, Bilge (1993).(The text is available from the Perseus Project.) In line 13 of the 4th carmen, Catullus addresses Cytore buxifer, using the vocative case of Cytorus. The EUSTATHIUS THESSALONICENSIS EPISCOPUS INDEX IN EUSTATHII COMMENTARIOS IN HOMERII ILIADEM ET ODYSSEAM gives both Κύτωρος and Κύτωρον. Apollonius of Rhodes also uses only the ambiguous accusative case but Strabo uses the nominative form

Murray and also Richmond Lattimore translate this as if it is from the masculine Κύτωρος rather than the neuter Κύτωρον.

^ In the passage cited below, Homer uses the accusative case form Κύτωρον.

Pleased at the prospect of not having the Romans around, the villagers called the bay Gideros. Villagers say that Roman ships once sought shelter from a storm at Gideros Bay, and when the villagers asked the sailors if they would stay, the sailors replied, 'Kalamazsak, gideros'-If we can't stay, we go. There is also reported a folk etymology for the modern name of Gideros, based on its resemblance to the Turkish gideriz (we go). Strabo's etymology notwithstanding, Bilge Umar finds the origin of the name Cytorus in the Luwian for 'Big wall'. The Homeric commentator Eustathius of Thessalonica mentions a saying, 'carry boxwood to Cytorus,' with the meaning of 'carry coals to Newcastle'. In the Georgics, Virgil says, 'Fain would I gaze on Cytorus billowy with boxwood'. In the 4th of the Carmina, Catullus addresses 'Box-tree-clad Cytórus', while Īpollonius applies the epithet 'woody' to Cytorus, alluding to the boxwood that Strabo mentions. Apollonius does apparently place Cytorus where Gideros Bay is today, between the Bartın River and the city of Sinop.

Unlike Strabo, he does not mention Cytorus as a son of Phryxus. Īpollonius of Rhodes mentions the settlement of Cytorus and related places in describing the voyage of the Argo.

He derives the name of Cytorus (he uses the neuter Cytorum) from Cytorus, a son of Phryxus and therefore one of the Argonauts. He reports that Cytorus was an emporium of Sinope and was a source for boxwood. This town was Amastris for Strabo, who writes of its founding through a union of Cytorus, Sesamon, and two other settlements. Homer mentions Cytorus and Sesamon as Paphlagonian settlements, along with others around the river Parthenius, today's Bartın River. In giving the Trojan battle order in Book 2 of the Iliad, Its mythical founder was Cytiorus, son of Phrixus, according to Ephorus and Stephanus of Byzantium. Possibly the name of Cide itself is derived from Cytorus. Gideros is 12 km west of the town of Cide, 15 km east of Kurucaşile.

the adjacent neighbourhood ( mahalle) of the village of Kalafat in the district ( ilçe) of Cide in the Kastamonu Province of Turkey.Mentioned by Homer, Cytorus survives in the name of Gideros, which is both Also Cytorum, Κύτωρον, Kytoron and Κύτωρις ) was an ancient Greek city on the northern coast of Asia Minor.

Gideros if not