Xanthus: town in western Lycia; its original name was Arňna, its modern name is Kınık. Legendary founders and eponymus Arnus and Xanthus of are of Xanthus are of the late provenience and would not be considered as Hittite and Luwian name of the city was Arinna 1what dates the beginnnig of the city to Bronze Age. Xanthos is a later Greek name.
See:
- http://www.livius.org/x/xanthus/xanthus1.html.
- Jacques des Courtils and Laurence Cavalier, The City of Xanthos from Archaic to Byzantine Times - http://www.academia.edu/1310466/The_City_of_Xanthos
References
- ↑Trevor Bryce, Jan Zahle, The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources, Museum Tusculanum Press 1986, p. 27