Syennesis

Syennesis (Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) was the name of a number of men in classical antiquity. In particular it seems to have been a common name of the native kings of Cilicia.

• Syennesis, a king of Cilicia, who joined with Labynetus (Nebuchadnezzar) in mediating between Cyaxares and Alyattes of Lydia, the kings respectively of Media and Lydia, probably in 610 BCE.^[1][2]
• Syennesis, a contemporary with Achaemenid king Darius the Great, to whom he was tributary. His daughter was married to Pixodarus, son of Mausolus. He was perhaps the same man whom Herodotus mentions as one of the most distinguished of the subordinate commanders in the fleet of Xerxes I.^[3][4]
• Syennesis (5th century), a figure in the conflict of Artaxerxes II of Persia and Cyrus the Younger as described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
• Syennesis of Cyprus, was an ancient Greek physician in the 4th century BCE

Notes

1. Herodotus, Histories i. 74
2. George Grote, History of Greece vol. iii. pp. 311, 312
3. Herodotus, Histories iii. 90, v. 118, vii. 98
4. Comp. Aesch. Pers. 318, &c.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Edward Elder (1870). "Syennesis". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 3. p. 949.