Syennesis
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians
in the texts
Anabasis
King of the Cilicians, husband of Epyaxa, who initially avoids Cyrus and later negotiates with him.
At this juncture arrived Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, coming to visit Cyrus, and the story was that she gave him a large sum of money;
After descending he marched through this plain four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Tarsus, a large and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, was situated;
the one on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by Syennesis and a garrison of Cilicians, while the one on the farther, the Syrian, side was reported to be guarded by a garrison of the King’s troops.
Hellenica
Ruler of Cilicia whose ability to oppose Cyrus's march was neutralized by the Spartan fleet.
he sailed round to Cilicia at the head of his fleet, in company with the fleet of Cyrus, and made it impossible for Syennesis, the ruler of Cilicia, to oppose Cyrus by land in his march against the Persian king.