Scirus

A soothsayer of Dodona, who, in the reign of Erechtheus, came to Salamis, and was afterwards honored in the island with heroic honors. Salamis is further said to have been called after him, Sciras.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 36.3.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.
  • Strabo. Geography ix, p. 393.

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