Sciathus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Chersonese
A place threatened by the despotic arrangements Philip installed in Euboea.
On the other hand, while you stay at home, at leisure and in health —(if indeed they could say that men who behave thus are in health)— Philip has set up two despots in Euboea, entrenching one right over against Attica and the other as a menace to Sciathus;
The Histories
Island near the Greek advance-guard position where the first naval encounters of the campaign occur.
It was Pammon of Scyros who showed them where in the strait the reef lay.
Three of the ten barbarian ships ran aground on the reef called the Ant, which lies between Sciathus and Magnesia.
Xerxes ' fleet, however, set forth from the city of Therma, and the ten swiftest of the ships laid their course straight for Sciathus, where there lay an advance guard of three Greek ships, a Troezenian, an Aeginetan, and an Attic.