Kikones
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the Kikones
in the texts
Odyssey
A people whose city Ismaros is sacked by Odysseus' men, who then rally and drive the Greeks off with losses.
"When I had set sail thence the wind took me first to Ismaros, which is the city of the Kikones.
I also took a goatskin of sweet black wine which had been given me by Maron, Apollo son of Euanthes, who was priest of Apollo the patron god of Ismaros, and lived within the wooded precincts of the temple.
thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we ate and drank our fill, - and we had plenty of wine left, for each one of us had taken many jars full when we sacked the city of the Kikones, and this had not yet run out.
Iliad
A people whose chief, Mentes, is the guise Apollo assumes to speak with Hektor.
The son of Atreus would have then carried off the armor of the son of Panthoos with ease, had not Phoebus Apollo been angry, and in the guise of Mentes chief of the Kikones incited Hektor to attack him.