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Borysthenes (Ancient Greek: Βορυσθένης) is a geographical name from classical Antiquity.
It usually refers to the Dniepr River, but also to the Pontic Olbia, a town situated near the mouth of the river. This is the name that Herodotus in his Histories chooses to talk about Pontic Olbia. Supposedly, it is was the name of another settlement located at the Berezan island which is located at the mouth of Dnieper and in the vicinity of Olbia.
In Greek mythology, the daughter of Borysthenes is the nymph Borysthenis.[1]
The Borysthenes is mentioned numerous times in 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. It was used as a route to the Black Sea by, among others, the Goths.
References
^ Braund, edited by David; Kryzhitskiy, S.D. (2007). Classical Olbia and the Scythian world : from the sixth century BC to the second century AD (1. publ. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 48. ISBN 9780197264041.
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