Skiron
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Skiron overturned by Theseus . Attic red-figure Kylix of Euphronios , 500 - 490 BC Chr. , Louvre (G 104)
Skiron ( Greek Σκίρων ) is a figure of Greek mythology and the son of Poseidon, although according to Plutarch Henioche , daughter of Pittheus , was his mother with Kanethos .
He was a mugger who ambushed unsuspecting hikers on the border of Attica and Megara , plundered them and forced them to wash his feet. He pushed them down into the sea, where a huge turtle ate the corpses . The young Theseus defeated him and killed him in the same way. But both the earth and the sea denied him a grave and instead hurled him back and forth until his remains finally petrified. The Skironic rocks near Megara, which are tumbled over by violent storms , therefore bear his name.
literature
- Otto Waser : Skiron 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 1004-1113 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Sciron - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Skiron in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Plutarch, Theseus 25.4 f.
- ^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 7, 444-447.