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== Family == Sciron was the son of either [[Pelops]]<ref name=":0">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.1.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron E.1.2]</ref> and possibly [[Hippodamia of Pisa|Hippodameia]], or [[Poseidon]]<ref name=":0" /> and [[Iphimedeia]]{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}.<ref name="tripp" /> Other sources makes his parents as [[Canethus]] and [[Henioche]], a daughter of [[Pittheus]] which made him a cousin of Theseus.<ref name=":1" /> Sciron was also called the son of [[Pylas (mythology)|Pylas]], king of [[Megara]] and thus great-grandson of [[Lelex]].<ref name=":2">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.39.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 1.39.6]</ref> Sciron was the father of [[Endeïs|Endeis]]<ref name=":3">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 3.12.6]</ref> by the daughter of [[Pandion II|Pandion]]<ref name=":2" /> or [[Chariclo]], daughter of [[Cychreus (mythology)|Cychreus]].<ref name=":4">Plutarch, ''Theseus'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html#10 10.3]</ref> Through his daughter Endeis, Sciron was thus the grandfather of the heroes [[Telamon]] and [[Peleus]].<ref name=":3" /> A son of Sciron named [[Alycus (mythology)|Alycus]], in the army of the Dioscuri was also said to be slain by Theseus when the latter kidnapped the young [[Helen of Troy|Helen]].<ref name=":1" />
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