Sailed up the Cydnus to Tarsus
· Cydnus River at Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file Summoned by Mark Antony, Cleopatra made her celebrated riverborne entrance at Tarsus before negotiating an alliance and beginning their political and personal partnership. The meeting is dated to 41 BC; ancient literary descriptions of the pageantry may be embellished.
