The Rhodius or Rhodios (Ancient Greek: Ῥόδιος) was a river of the ancient Troad, having its sources in Mount Ida, a little above the town of Astyra; it flowed in a northwestern direction, and after passing by Astyra and Cremaste, discharged itself into the Hellespont between Dardanus and Abydus.[1][2][3][4] Strabo states that some regarded the Rhodius as a tributary of the Aesepus;[5] but they must have been mistaken, as the river is mentioned on the coins of Dardanus.[6] Pliny the Elder states that this ancient river no longer existed in his time;[4] and some modern writers identify it with the Pydius mentioned by Thucydides.[7][8] Strabo also writes that the towns of Cleandria and Gordus were located on this river.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 12.20, 20.215.
  2. ↑ Hesiod, Th. 341.
  3. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p.554, xiii. pp. 595, 603. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  4. 1 2 Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.33.
  5. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p.595. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ↑ Sestini, Geog. Numis. p. 39.
  7. ↑ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 8.106.
  8. ↑ Hesych. and Phavorin. s. v. Πύδιον
  9. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 13.1.44. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Rhodius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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