Editing Sciron (section)

=== Sciron, the warlord ===
According to [[Plutarch]], however, the Megarians claimed that Sciron was not a robber, but identified him with the Megarian warlord named Sciron. <blockquote>Sciron was neither a violent man nor a robber, but a chastiser of robbers, and a kinsman and friend of good and just men. For Aeacus, they say, is regarded as the most righteous of Hellenes, and Cychreus the Salaminian has divine honors at Athens, and the virtues of Peleus and Telamon are known to all men. Well, then, Sciron was a son-in law of Cychreus, father-in law of Aeacus, and grandfather of Peleus and Telamon, who were the sons of Endeis, daughter of Sciron and Chariclo. It is not likely, then, they say, that the best of men made family alliances with the basest, receiving and giving the greatest and most valuable pledges.<ref>Plutarch, ''Theseus'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html#10 10.2-3] {{PD-notice}}</ref></blockquote>When Pylas was exiled from Megara, he gave the rule to his son-in-law [[Pandion I|Pandion]], who then gave it to his son [[Nisos|Nisus]]. Sciron who married the daughter of Pandion disputed with Nisus about the throne. But later on, he agreed to accept the arbitration of [[Aeacus]], king of [[Aegina]], who decided that Nisus and his descendants should be king and have the government while Sciron was entitled as the military leader and in command of war.<ref>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] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.44.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Sciron 1.44.6]</ref> Sciron accepted this decision and married his daughter Endeïs to the chosen umpire Aeacus.

In one version, Theseus instituted the [[Isthmian Games]] so as to honor him and made expiation for his murder because of their kinship (they were cousins as their mothers [[Aethra (mother of Theseus)|Aethra]] and Henioche were sisters). Others, Plutarch remarked, bestow the honor of the games upon [[Sinis (mythology)|Sinis]], another bandit killed by Theseus.<ref name=":1">[[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Thes.+25&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0067 25.4–5]</ref>

A passage in Ovid (''Met.''7.444), where the poet claims that certain cliffs by the name of Sciron owe their name to the man, suggests an [[Etiology#Mythology|aetiological]] origin for the tale.

In another story, Sciron, here identified as the son of a man named [[Polypemon]], threw his daughter [[Alcyone (daughter of Sciron)|Alcyone]] into the sea to drown when he discovered that she had been sleeping with multiple men whilst unmarried.<ref>[[Pseudo-Probus]], ''On Virgil's Georgics'' 1.399</ref>