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    In Greek mythology, Sciron, also Sceiron, Skeirôn and Scyron, (Ancient Greek: Σκίρων; gen.: Σκίρωνoς) was one of the malefactors killed by Theseus on the...
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    Trapezites sciron, the Sciron skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Australian states of Western Australia, South Australia...
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    Meandrusa sciron, the brown gorgon, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the hooked swallowtails...
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  • into the bird bearing her name after she was murdered by her own father Sciron. Her tale is a variation on the more known myth of the origins of the kingfisher...
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  • Acrojana sciron is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Druce in 1887. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga)...
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    Pylas of Megara and thus, brother to Pallas, Nysus, Lykos and the wife of Sciron. But, in some accounts, he was regarded as the son of Scyrius or Phemius...
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  • daughter of the Megarian warlord Sciron. In some versions, Endeïs's father, Sciron, married her to Aeacus after he declared Sciron the military leader of Megara...
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    Edonus (Paion) Taphius Hippothoe The Aloadae (Ephialtes and Otus) Iphimedeia Sciron Achaeus Larissa Pelasgus Pythius Althepus Leis Agenor Libya Belus Lelex...
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    Dimoetes, Atreus, Thyestes, Copreus, Hippalcimus (Hippalcus, Hippalcmus), Sciron, Sicyon, Epidaurus, Cleones (Cleonymus), Letreus, Dyspontos, Pelops the...
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  • Serus and Alazygus by Halirrhotius, son of Perieres. Alcyone, daughter of Sciron who was killed by her father. Apollodorus, 3.10.1 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 15;...
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    Sow as an offspring of Typhon and Echidna. Near Megara, a robber named Sciron forced travelers along the narrow cliff-face pathway to wash his feet. While...
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    wind sweeping away clouds. Argestes's variants, Olympias (ὀλυμπίας) and Sciron (σκίρων) are local Athenian names, a reference to Mount Olympus and the...
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  • repopulated the earth after the Great Flood that ended the Bronze Age. Sciron: son of Poseidon, a Corinthian bandit who was defeated by Theseus on his...
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  • Pylia, and accordingly was his son-in-law. Pylon was also the father of Sciron, the warlord of Megara. Pausanias, 6.22.3 Pausanias, 1.39.6 Apollodorus...
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    massive sea turtle is used by the bandit Sciron to dispose of his victims after he pushes them into the sea. He [Sciron] is defeated by Theseus pushing him...
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  • gigantic fox destined never to be hunted down. Tortoises/Turtles Giant turtle: Sciron robbed travelers passing the Sceironian Rocks and forced them to wash his...
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    favourable to... West Barefoot, with cloak full of blossoming flowers Sciron Sciron, the north-west wind; the dryest which blows in Athens This wind is...
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  • gaining a snake for Triptolemus. During a later encounter with the bandit Sciron and after a meeting with the goddess Hecate, Hazel successfully learns to...
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  • Nisus and Pallas, and possibly of a daughter who married her maternal uncle Sciron, the Megarian warlord and brother of Pylia. Pylia was offered in marriage...
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  • mammal-like reptiles Meandrusa payeni or Yellow Gorgon, a butterfly Meandrusa sciron or Brown Gorgon, a butterfly Saint-Gorgon (disambiguation), several communes...
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    Peirithous Peleus Phoenix Phrixus Pleisthenes Polyidus Protesilaus Rhadamanthys Sciron Scyrians Syleus Temenidae Temenos Tennes Theseus Thyestes Previously unknown...
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  • Συλεύς a Lydian who forced people to dig his vineyard and was killed by Heracles Syme Σύμη eponym of the island Syme Sciron Σκίρων son of Poseidon, bandit...
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  • well as eponym of a mountain near Chalcis. Canethus, father of the bandit Sciron or Sinis by Henioche. May or may not be the same as the above one. Ancient...
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    and Athena Theseus and Sinis Theseus and the Crommyonian sow Theseus and Sciron Theseus and Cercyon Theseus and Procrustes Theseus and the Bull of Marathon...
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  • of Pittheus, thus a sister of Aethra. She was the mother of the bandit Sciron or Sinis by Canethus. Henioche, daughter of Armenius, the descendant of...
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    ("kingfisher") Kingfishers (halcyons) The gods Alcyone was ordered by her father Sciron to find a suitable groom, but instead she slept with several men. Her father...
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  • Pylas of Megara. He was the brother of Aegeus, Nisos, Lykos and the wife of Sciron. Upon the death of Pandion, Pallas and his brothers took control of Athens...
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    (Fruhstorfer, 1902) Meandrusa payeni (Boisduval, 1836) – yellow gorgon Meandrusa sciron (Leech, 1890) – Eastern brown gorgon Media related to Meandrusa at Wikimedia...
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  • Greek: Λακιάδαι) was a deme of ancient Attica on the Sacred Way between Sciron and the Cephissus, and near the sacred fig-tree. It is celebrated as the...
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  • Julian Richings. Sciron – A thief and son of Poseidon. He had previously fought Theseus in the past. In The House of Hades, Sciron and his giant turtle...
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