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Pyramus
(434 words)

(Πύραμος/Pýramos).

[German version]

[1] Easternmost of the three rivers in Cilicia Pedias

Easternmost of the three rivers in Cilicia Pedias (Cydnus, Sarus [1]; Cilices, Cilicia), mentioned as early as Scyl. 102, modern Ceyhan. Rising in Cataonia in Cappadocia, in Antiquity its mouth, on a now defunct branch, lay to the west of Magarsa near the ancient mouth of the Sarus. Because of this the two rivers were occasionally conflated. Today the mouth has shif…

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Hild, Friedrich (Vienna) and Gauly, Bardo Maria (Kiel), “Pyramus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 03 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1015290>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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