# Cytherus

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**Cytherus** or **Kytheros** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Κύθηρρος[1] or Κύθηρος), also known as **Cytherum** or **Kytheron** (Κύθηρον),[2][3] was one of the twelve cities of [ancient Attica](/source/Ancient_Attica), and afterwards a [deme](/source/Deme). [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) states that the nymphs of the river [Cytherus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cytherus_(river)&action=edit&redlink=1) in [Elis](/source/Ancient_Elis) were called [Ionides](/source/Ionides) from [Ion](/source/Ion_(mythology)), the son of [Gargettus](/source/Gargettus), when he migrated from [Athens](/source/Ancient_Athens) to Elis.[4]

The site of Cytherus is located near modern [Pousi Kaloyerou](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pousi_Kaloyerou&action=edit&redlink=1).[5][6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** So in inscriptions

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Strabo](/source/Strabo). *[Geographica](/source/Geographica)*. Vol. ix. p.397. Page numbers refer to those of [Isaac Casaubon](/source/Isaac_Casaubon)'s edition.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Harpoc., *s.v.*; *[Suda](/source/Suda)*, *s.v.*; Phot., *s.v.*; [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium). Ethnica. Vol. *s.v*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) (1918). ["22.7"](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=paus.+6.22.7). *Description of Greece*. Vol. 6. Translated by [W. H. S. Jones](/source/W._H._S._Jones); H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via [Perseus Digital Library](/source/Perseus_Digital_Library).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 59. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/31155.html).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

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