Skironic rocks

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Skironic rocks (also Skironĭdes or Skirādes Petrai , lat. Scironia saxa ) was the name given to the steep eastern slope of the Oniagebirge on the Isthmus of Corinth , on the coast of the Saronic Gulf .

According to legend , Ino and her son Melikertes fell from one of the rocks, the Molurian rock , into the sea. A narrow, dangerous pass ( Skirōne or Skirōnis , today Kakia Skala ) led between the sea and the Skironic rocks , where the legendary robber Skiron lived. Emperor Hadrian widened the path so that two wagons could avoid each other.

literature

  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Altenburg 1857-1865, Volume 16, p. 169.