Sciron

Sciron the hero Iolaus o'ertakes Eurystheus 'chariot.

The Heracleidae 2008

Sciron the hero Iolaus o'ertakes Eurystheus 'chariot.

The Heracleidae 2008

Sinis, and Sciron, and Procrustes,128 foreign travellers have had an easy time of it.

Memorabilia 2007

Helena said it was where heartless robbers used to lurk, including legendary Sciron, who made travellers wash his feet, then gave them a great kick right off the crag.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

Peleus and Telamon, who were both of them sons of Endeis, the daughter of Sciron and Chariclo; it was not probable, therefore, that the best of men should make these alliances with one who was worst, giving and receiving mutually what was of greatest value and most dear to them.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Sciron being the son of Canethus and Heniocha, the daughter of

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, where he was buried, is called Alycus to this day.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Theseus, by their account, did not slay Sciron in his first journey to Athens, but afterwards, when he took

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

There are some who say that the Isthmian games were first instituted in memory of Sciron, Theseus thus making expiation for his death, upon account of the nearness of kindred between them,

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Simonides expresses it, “fighting with all antiquity,” contend that Sciron was neither a robber nor doer of violence, but

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003