Syennesis

Family: Kilikian · Role: peace mediator · First appears: Book 1 · §72–77

Life events

Syennesis and Labynetos brokered peace and arranged Aryenis's marriage to Astyages.(Book 1 · §72–77)
- With: Labynetos Alyattes Aryenis Astyages
- “they brought about an interchange of marriages; for they decided that Alyattes should give his daughter Aryenis to Astyages the son of Kyaxares”
The Carians fought the Persians and were defeated, suffering ten thousand dead.(Book 5 · §112–125 · 📍 the river Marsyas)
- With: Pixodaros Mausolos
- “at length they were worsted by superior numbers: and of the Persians there fell as many as two thousand, but of the Carians ten thousand.”
The Carians renewed the war with Milesian and allied support, but were defeated again.(Book 5 · §112–125)
- With: Pixodaros Mausolos
- “Then the Carians dismissed the plans which they were before considering and prepared to renew the war again from the beginning: and when the Persians came to attack them, they engaged with them and fought a battle, and they were worsted yet more completely than before;”

with Labynetos (They jointly mediated peace between the Lydians and Medes.) “And they who brought about the peace between them were Syennesis the Kilikian and Labynetos the Babylonian”

with Pixodaros (Pixodaros was married to Syennesis's unnamed daughter.) “a man of Kindye, who was married to the daughter of the king of the Kilikians, Syennesis.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.