Scyros
place · 7 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
rocky Scyros
in the texts
Philoctetes
Scyros is Neoptolemus' homeland and part of the identity he presents to Philoctetes.
No, rocky Scyros shall suffice for me from now on to make me delight in my home.
If only I might one day be allowed to fulfill my heart’s rage by the deeds of my hand, so that Mycenae might learn, and Sparta, that Scyros also is a mother of brave men!
My birthplace is the island Scyros, and I am sailing homeward.
On the Peace with Sparta
One of the islands whose possession is contrasted between the dictated truce and the proposed peace.
Under the truce Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros remained in the possession of their occupants:
To recover the islands, Lemnos, Scyros, and Imbros?
Constitution of the Athenians
Island where Theseus traveled and was killed by Lycomedes.
Aristotle records that Theseus, having gone to Scyros on a reconnaissance—reasonably, because of his kinship with Aegeus—died, thrust down from the rocks, Lycomedes who was reigning there having taken fright .
Apollodorus Against Callippus
The island associated with Cephisiades's residence or alien status.
This Lycon, when he was about to set out on a voyage to Libya, reckoned up his account with my father in the presence of Archebiades and Phrasias, and ordered my father to pay the money which he left (it was sixteen minae forty drachmae, as I shall show you very clearly) to Cephisiades, saying that this Cephisiades was a partner of his, a resident of Scyros, but was for the time being abroad on an …
It happens that I am proxenos of the Heracleotes, and you would be glad, I should think, to have me get the money rather than an alien who resides in Scyros, and is a man of no account.
Chrestomathy
Island where Achilles marries Deidameia after being scattered by the storm.
and Achilles, putting in at Scyros, marries Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Aegean island inhabited by the Dolopes, conquered and colonized by the Athenians.
In the next place, Scyros, the island in the Aegean Sea, which was inhabited by Dolopes, was reduced to slavery, and colonized by themselves.
Hellenica
Island assigned to Athens under the King's Peace.
King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros;