The Iardanos or Iardanus () is a river in Greece which flows into the Ionian Sea at the Monastery of Skafidia, north of Katakolo, in Elis. It is apparently the same as the river, referred to in Homer's Iliad as being near Pheia in ancient Elis. Homer has Nestor the legendary king of Pylos recall seeing, as a young man, the Pylians and Arcadians fighting by the river Celadon:
Strabo describing the coast of Elis, says:
While describing the river Anigrus in Elis that descends from Mount Lapithas, the geographer Pausanias, possibly referring to this river, reports having "heard from an Ephesian" that the Acidas, a tributary of the Anigrus, "was called Iardanus in ancient times", adding that "I repeat [this], though I have nowhere found evidence in support of it."
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- Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. (1924). LacusCurtis, Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Books 6–14.