Region: West Asia · Coordinates: 36.914, 34.897 · 9 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 401 BC | Xenophon, Anabasis (March of the Ten Thousand) | They arrive at Tarsus, having descended to the plain and marched four days; it is a large and prosperous city, the seat of Syennesis, king of Cilicia, and the river Cydnus, two plethra wide, flows through its middle. |
| 401 BC | Xenophon, Anabasis (March of the Ten Thousand) | They stay twenty days at Tarsus. The soldiers refuse to go farther, suspecting they are to fight the Great King; Clearchus first tries to force the march and is pelted with stones by the soldiers. |
| 333 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | He hurried to Tarsus and sent Arsames fleeing, but after bathing in the Cydnus he caught a fever. Though he read Parmenion's warning letter, he drank the medicine of the physician Philippus. |
| 41 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Cleopatra sails up the river Cydnus in a barge with a gilded stern |
| AD 72 | Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews | Paetus orders Antiochus, who has reached Tarsus, to be bound and sent to Rome |
| AD 276 | Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus | Florianus is killed by his own soldiers at Tarsus. |
| AD 276 | Zosimus, New History | Florianus, on the Roman side, camps at Tarsus facing Probus, who drags things out; he loses soldiers to heat and plague and is finally killed by his own men. |
| AD 310 | Zosimus, New History | Zosimus writes that Maximian Herculius plots against Constantine, is exposed by Fausta's denunciation, and dies of illness at Tarsus. |
| AD 313 | Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus | Maximinus in the East is Augustus for two years, is defeated by Licinius and dies at Tarsus. |