# Mount Chortiatis

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**Mount Chortiatis** or **Hortiatis** (Greek: Όρος Χορτιάτη, Χορτιάτης), known in [Antiquity](/source/Classical_Antiquity) as **[Cissus](/source/Cissus_(Mygdonia))** (Ancient Greek: Κισσός) or **Kissos**, is a mountain in [Central Macedonia](/source/Central_Macedonia), [Greece](/source/Greece).[1][2] It rises southeast of [Thessaloniki](/source/Thessaloniki), peaking at 1,201 metres. Besides the city of Thessaloniki, there are several suburbs and villages located on the foothills of Chortiatis, most notably [Chortiatis](/source/Chortiatis) and the affluent suburb of [Panorama](/source/Panorama,_Thessaloniki), both of them belonging in the [Pylaia-Chortiatis](/source/Pylaia-Chortiatis) municipality. The mountain's landscape is wooded, with part of these woods making up Thessaloniki's [Seich Sou](/source/Seich_Sou) Forest National Park. A [fall wind](/source/Fall_wind) that occurs on the [Thermaic Gulf](/source/Thermaic_Gulf) was named after the mountain as well.

Mount Chortiatis played a crucial role for the water supply of Thessaloniki from ancient up until modern times. In the late [Byzantine period](/source/Byzantine_period) (ca. 1300), the *Chortaïtes* monastery on the northern slopes of the mountain provided the city and the region east of it with fresh water by an [aqueduct](/source/Aqueduct_(water_supply)) whose remains have been partly preserved.

## Mythology

The mythological elements around Mount Kissos (or Chortiatis), in the eastern part of the [Thermaic Gulf](/source/Thermaic_Gulf), and the homonymous settlement, refer to King [Kissea](/source/Cisseus) of Thrace, who is testified by [Homer](/source/Homer), but also to the [ivy](/source/Ivy), a [plant](/source/Plant) associated with [Dionysus](/source/Dionysus). like the [vine](/source/Vine).

Kissea's daughter, [Theano](/source/Theano_of_Troy), married the [Trojan](/source/Troy) [Antinor](/source/Antenor_(mythology)) and became a priestess of Athena in Ilion. Ifidamas, son of Antinor and Theano, grew up in Thrace near his grandfather Kissea, and married his grandfather's young daughter. While [hiking](/source/Hiking), Ifidamas arrived in [Troy](/source/Troy), with twelve ships under his command, and was killed by [Agamemnon](/source/Agamemnon).

## References

1. Johnson, Mark J.; Ousterhout, Robert; Papalexandrou, Amy (2016). [*Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration: Studies in Honor of Slobodan Curcic*](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315262307/approaches-byzantine-architecture-decoration-mark-johnson-amy-papalexandrou-robert-ousterhout). Ousterhout, Robert (ed.). [doi:10.4324/9781315262307](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315262307). ISBN 9781315262307.

1. González, Elena Martín & Paschidis, Paschalis (November 2017). ["The 21st-century epigraphic harvest from Macedonia"](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-reports/article/abs/21stcentury-epigraphic-harvest-from-macedonia/EFEB90BE156E70E7001F56FF21C05919). *Archaeological Reports*. **63**: 181–200. [doi:10.1017/S0570608418000133](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0570608418000133). [ISSN 0570-6084](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0570-6084). [S2CID 186656277](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:186656277)

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