Skaios (son of the hippocoon)
Skaios ( ancient Greek Σκαῖος ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is the son of the hippocoon from Amyklai . In the library of Apollodorus , together with his father and his brothers Dorykleus , Enarophoros , Bukolos , Euteiches , Lykaithos , Tebros , Hippothoos , Eurytos , Hippokorystes , Alcinous and Alkon, he drove the rulers of Sparta , Ikarios and Tyndareos , out of the city. Hippocoon and all his sons are killed by Heracles , whereupon Tyndareus takes control again.
In a fragment by the choral lyricist Alkman , his name is added to the list of the descendants of the Hippocoon. At Alkman, Hippocoon and his sons are slain by the Dioscuri , the sons of Heracles.
Herodotus tells of a tripod in the temple of Apollon Ismenios in Thebes , which was offered to the god by a Skaios as a votive offering for a victory in a fist fight . He suspects the son of the hippocoon behind it and therefore dates the tripod to the assumed lifetime of the Oidipus .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Skaios 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 974 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Zwicker : Skaios 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III A, 1, Stuttgart 1927, column 424.