Scandea
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Iliad
Destination to which Amphidamas was to carry the helmet.
He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest-gift to Molos, who gave it to his son Meriones;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Coastal town on Cythera near the harbour, captured by the Athenians and later garrisoned.
The Athenians therefore, having made the land with their armament, with ten of their ships and two thousand heavy-armed of the Milesians, took the town on the coast called Scandea;
After the capitulation, the Athenians, having got possession of Scandea, the town near the harbour, and appointed a garrison for Cythera, sailed to Asine, Helus, and most of the places on the sea;