ABSTRACT
Son of Poseidon or of Pelops. He infested the Scironian Way, the road between Megara and Eleusis. At a point where there were precipitous rocks overlooking the sea, he would stop travellers and make them wash his feet. As they stooped to do so, it was his custom to kick them over the edge of the cliffs; at the bottom, a giant turtle ate their remains. Theseus, however, requited him with his own medicine. According to a divergent Megarian account, Sciron was a son of Pylas, king of Megara, and disputed the succession with Nisus, son of Pandion. Aeacus, king of Aegina, arbitrated in the dispute, and made Nisus the king of Megara and Sciron the commander of its army. Endeis, Sciron’s daughter, married Aeacus.
