- Source: Iardanus (river in Crete)
Iardanus (Ancient Greek: Ἰάρδανος), a river referred to in Homer's Odyssey, which identifies Crete as:
where the Cydonians dwelt about the streams of Iardanus.
The Cydonians were the inhabitants of the ancient city of Cydonia (presented day Chania), in northwestern Crete, and the geographer Pausanias also locates the river Iardanus at Cydonia. The river has been identified with the modern Keritis river, which rises in the White Mountains (Lefka Ori), flows north through the village of Meskla and into the sea at Platanias, a few miles west of Chania.
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Homer, Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1-12, translated by A. T. Murray, revised by George E. Dimock, Loeb Classical Library No. 104, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998 (first published 1919). ISBN 978-0-674-99561-1. Online version at Harvard University Press.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, London (1854). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.