Plutarch's Lives

Sciron

Family: Megara · Role: robber or punisher of robbers · First appears: Theseus

Life events

  • Theseus killed Sciron, Sinnis, Procrustes, and Corynetes, relieving Greece of terrible oppressors.(Comparison of Romulus with Theseus · 📍 Greece)
    • With: Theseus Sinnis Procrustes Corynetes
    • “as mere by-adventures and preludes, the other can name Sciron, Sinnis, Procrustes, and Corynetes; by reducing and killing of whom, he rid Greece of terrible oppressors,”

Theseus

  • child: Endeis “Peleus and Telamon were not unknown to any one. Now Sciron was son-in-law to Cychreus, father-in-law to Aeacus, and grandfather to Peleus and Telamon, who were both of them sons of Endeis, the daughter of Sciron and Chariclo”
  • younger kin: Peleus “Now Sciron was son-in-law to Cychreus, father-in-law to Aeacus, and grandfather to Peleus and Telamon”
  • younger kin: Telamon “Now Sciron was son-in-law to Cychreus, father-in-law to Aeacus, and grandfather to Peleus and Telamon”
  • child: Alycus “And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain”
  • enemies with Theseus “He slew also Sciron, upon the borders of Megara”
  • married with Cychreus “Sciron was son-in-law to Cychreus”
  • with Aeacus (interaction) “father-in-law to Aeacus”
  • parent: Alycus “Alycus, the son of Sciron”

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