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SCYROS , a small rocky barren See also: island in the See also: Aegean See also: Sea, off
the See also: coast of See also: Thessaly, containing a See also: town of the same name
.
In
469 B.C. it was conquered by the Athenians under See also: Cimon, and
it was probably about this See also: time that the legends arose which connect it with the See also: Attic See also: hero See also: Theseus, who was said to have been treacherously slain and buried there
.
A mythic claim was thus formed to justify the Athenian attack, and Cimon brought back the bones of Theseus to Athens in See also: triumph
.
The inhabitants of Scyros before the Athenian See also: conquest were Dolopes (Thuc. g8); but other accounts speak of See also: Pelasgians or Carians as the earliest inhabitants
.
There was a sanctuary of See also: Achilles on the island, and numerous traditions connect Scyros with that hero
.
He was concealed, disguised as a woman, in the palace of Lycomedes, See also: king of the island, when his
See also: mother wished to keep him back from the Trojan War; he was discovered there by Odysseus, and gladly accompanied him to Troy
.
An entirely different See also: cycle of legends relate the conquest of Scyros by Achilles
.
The actual worship on the island of a hero or See also: god named Achilles, and the probable kinship of its inhabitants with a Thessalian See also: people, whose hero Achilles also was, See also: form the See also: historical foundation of the legends
.
Scyros was See also: left, along with See also: Lemnos and See also: Imbros, to the Athenians by the See also: peace of Antalcides (387 B.C.)
.
It was taken by See also: Philip, and continued under Macedonian
See also: rule till 196, when the See also: Romans restored it to Athens, in whose possession it remained throughout the See also: Roman See also: period
.
It was sacked by an army of Goths, HerDli and Peucini, in A.D
.
269
.
The See also: ancient city was situated on a lofty rocky See also: peak, on the See also: north-eastern coast, where the See also: modern town of St See also: George now stands
.
A See also: temple of Athena, the chief goddess of Scyros, was on the See also: shore near the town
.
The island has a small stream, called in ancient times Cephissus
.
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