Sciron
(
Σκῖρων, also
Σκείρων).
A famous robber who infested the frontier between Attica and Megaris. He not only robbed the
travellers who passed through the country, but compelled them on the Scironian Rock to wash
his feet, and then kicked them into the sea while they were thus employed. At the foot of the
rock there was a tortoise, which devoured the bodies of the robber's victims. He was slain by
Theseus (
Plut. Thes. 10). See
Theseus.