Scyros
(
Σκῦρος). Now Scyro. An island in the Aegaean Sea, east of
Euboea, and one of the Sporades. Here Thetis concealed her son Achilles in woman's attire
among the daughters of Lycomedes, and here also Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles by Deidamia, was
brought up. According to another tradition the island was conquered by Achilles, in order to
revenge the death of Theseus, who is said to have been treacherously destroyed in Scyros by
Lycomedes. The bones of Theseus were discovered by Cimon in Scyros, after his conquest of the
island, B.C. 476, and were conveyed to Athens, where they were preserved in the Theseum (
Thuc.i. 98;
Diod. Sic.xi. 60). From this
time Scyros continued subject to Athens till the period of the Macedonian supremacy; but the
Romans compelled the last Philip to restore it to Athens, B.C. 196 (
Livy,
xxxiii. 30).