Sciron
Family: mythological · Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
In Book 1, Chapter 39, Sciron disputed sovereignty with Nisus, and Æacus ruled that the kingdom would belong to Nisus and his descendants, while military command would go to Sciron. The same chapter names Pylas as Sciron’s grandson. In Book 2, Chapter 29, Sciron is identified as the parent of Endeis.
In Book 1, Chapter 44, Theseus threw Sciron into the sea as punishment for his crimes.
Relationship record
Life events
- Æacus awarded sovereignty to Nisus and military command to Sciron.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
- Theseus threw Sciron into the sea as punishment for his crimes.(Book 1 · Chapter 44)
- With: Theseus
- “for he himself was thrown by Theseus into the same sea.”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- with Theseus (Theseus hurls Sciron into the sea.) “Theseus hurling Sciron into the sea”
Book 1 · Chapter 39
- rivals with Nisus “Sciron having a controversy with Nisus the son of Pandion about the sovereignty”
- parent: Pylas “And he had a son Cleson, and a grandson Pylas, and a great-grandson Sciron, who married the daughter of Pandion,”
- with Æacus (Æacus acted as arbitrator in the dispute.) “Æacus was arbitrator, and gave his decision that the kingdom was to belong to Nisus and his descendants, but the command of the army was to devolve upon Sciron.”
Book 1 · Chapter 44
- with Theseus (Theseus threw Sciron into the sea.) “for he himself was thrown by Theseus into the same sea”
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- child: Endeis “Endeis the daughter of Sciron”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.