Scythes
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Agathyrsus · Gelonus · Scythes the monarch of Zancle · Scythes, son of Harmateus
in the texts
The Histories
The youngest son of Heracles and the serpent-tailed woman who alone fulfills his father's test and so becomes ancestor of the Scythian kings, in the Greek account; his brothers Agathyrsus and Gelonus are banished.
From Scythes son of Heracles comes the whole line of the kings of Scythia;
Two of her sons, Agathyrsus and Gelonus, were cast out by their mother and left the country, unable to fulfill the requirements set;
But when the sons born to her were grown men, she gave them names, calling one of them Agathyrsus and the next Gelonus and the youngest Scythes;
Against Stephanus I
A witness from Cydathenaeum who joins Stephanus and Endius in the disputed deposition.
Stephanus, son of Menecles, of Acharnae, Endius, son of Epigenes, of Lamptrae, Scythes, son of Harmateus, of Cydathenaeum depose that they were present before the arbitrator Teisias, of Acharnae, when Phormio challenged Apollodorus, if he declared that the document which Phormio put into the box was not a copy of the will of Pasio, to open the will of Pasio, which Amphias, brother-in-law of Cephis …
Hellenica
A Spartan officer assigned by Agesilaus to command the Helot hoplites.
Of these, Agesilaus assigned Xenocles and one other to the command of the cavalry, Scythes to the command of the Helot hoplites, Herippidas to the Cyreans, and Mygdon to the troops from the allied cities, and he announced to them that he would immediately lead them by the shortest route to the best parts of the country, his object being to have them begin at once to prepare their bodies and spirits for the fray.