The Iardanos or Iardanus (Greek: Ιάρδανος, Ancient Greek: Ἰάρδανος) is a river in Greece which flows into the Ionian Sea at the Monastery of Skafidia, north of Katakolo, in Elis.
[1] It is apparently the same as the river, referred to in Homer's Iliad as being near Pheia in ancient Elis.
[2] Homer has Nestor the legendary king of Pylos recall seeing, as a young man, the Pylians and Arcadians fighting by the river Celadon: beneath the walls of Pheia, about the streams of Iardanus.
[3]Strabo describing the coast of Elis, says: After Chelonatas comes the long seashore of the Pisatans; and then Cape Pheia.
[5]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.