Editing Sciron (section)

=== Sciron, the robber ===
[[File:National Road 8 (PATHE, European road 94) and railway line at Kakia Skala, Attica, Greece.jpg|thumb|One possible location of the mythological Sceironian Rocks is Kakia Skala in modern day [[Attica Prefecture|Attica]]. Its literal name ("Bad Bay") still has ominous connotations.]]
An Isthmian [[Outlaw (stock character)|outlaw]], Sciron dwelt at the Sceironian Rocks, a cliff on the [[Saronic Gulf|Saronic]] coast of the [[Isthmus of Corinth]] on the Megarian territory.<ref name="tripp">Tripp, Edward. ''The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology''. Meridian, 1970, p. 522.</ref><ref>[[Strabo]], 9.1.4</ref> He robbed travelers passing the Sceironian Rocks and sitting near the sea he made it his practice to force them to wash his feet at a precipitous place. When they knelt before him, he would suddenly give them a kick over the cliff into the sea, where the victim's body was devoured by a huge monstrous [[sea turtle]] which used to swim under the rocks<ref name="tripp" /><ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.44.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 1.44.8]</ref> or rolled down the crags into the sea at a place called Chelone (i.e. tortoise).<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#59.4 4.59.4]</ref> As his fourth labour, Theseus slew him in the same way, by pushing him off the cliff<ref>Apollodorus, E.[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 1.2]'';'' [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#38 38]'';'' Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.44.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 1.44.8]'';'' [[Scholia]] ad [[Euripides]], ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytus]]'' 976</ref> or according to some, the hero seized him by the feet and threw him into the sea.<ref>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]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 7.445</ref> In the pediment of the royal Stoa at Athens, there was a group of figures of burnt clay, representing Theseus in the act of throwing Sciron into the sea.<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.3.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 1.3.1]</ref>