Sciras

A surname of Athena, under which she had a temple in the Attic port of Phaleron, and in the island of Salamis.1 In the month of Scirophorion a festival was celebrated at Athens in honor of her, which was called σκιραφόρια (skiraphoria).2

The foundation of the temple at Phaleron is ascribed by Pausanias to a soothsayer, Scirus of Dodona, who is said to have come to Attica at the time when the Eleusinians were at war with king Erechtheus.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 1.4; Herodotus. Histories viii, 94.
  2. Harpocrates, s.v. Σκίρον.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 36.3; comp. Strabo. Geography ix, p. 393; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Σκίρος.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.