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  Scyros - LoveToKnow 1911
SCYROS, a small rocky barren island in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Thessaly, containing a town of the same name.
Scyros was left, along with Lemnos and Imbros, to the Athenians by the peace of Antalcides (387 B.e.).
A temple of Athena, the chief goddess of Scyros, was on the shore near the town.
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 Scyros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Scyros was left, along with Lemnos and Imbros, to the Athenians by the peace of Antalcides (387 B.c.).
Scyros is in the Aegean and would be directly on the route from the Black Sea.
The Dolopes living on Scyros were disrupting the trade of the Aegean states; those states were part of the Delian League.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/erytheas.htm   (890 words)

  
 Scyros
Scyros was born in Hogshit, Virginia, in the mid 1930's.
Very little is known about the next few years of Scyros' life, though it is certain that when he returned to the United States in 1946, six million Jews were dead.
In the year 2000 Scyros was reanimated from his cryogenic sleep.
www.rit.edu /~dtb4355/html/bios/scyros.html   (269 words)

  
 Lycomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (also known as Lycurgus) was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War.
Before the war, Thetis sent her son Achilles to Lycomedes' court, as a prophecy had decreed that he would die at Troy.
Odysseus and Menelaus came to Scyros seeking Achilles, and suceeeded in identifying him and bringing him to Troy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lycomedes   (150 words)

  
 Neoptolemus
Achilles didn't want to fight in the Trojan War, so he disguised himself as a girl in the court of Lycomedes, the King of Scyros[?].
Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could achieve the poisonous arrows of Heracles (then in Philoctetes' possession); steal the Palladium (which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and persuade Achilles' son to join the war.
In contrast to Achilles, a noble warrior who had shown mercy to Priam, Neoptolemus was savage and cruel.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Neoptolemus.html   (372 words)

  
 478-477. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Cimon, the son of Miltiades, was elected strategos, led an expedition to Thrace, captured almost all the Persian forts along the coast, and expelled Pausanias from Byzantium.
Athenian cleruchs were sent to both Eion and Scyros.
Carystus, a city on Euboea, was forced to join the Delian League against its will.
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 Neoptolemus
When Achilles disguised himself as a girl in the court of the king of Scyros to avoid taking part in the Trojan War, he had an affair with Deidamea, the king's daughter, who bore him the child.
Twenty years later in the war, after the death of Achilles and Ajax and no signs of victory for the Greeks, the Greeks desperately captured the Trojan seer, Helenus, and forced him to tell them under what conditions could they take Troy.
Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could achieve the poisonous arrows of Heracles (then at Philocthetes); steal the Palladium (which lead to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and persuade Achilles' son to join the war.
www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/n/neoptolemus.html   (344 words)

  
 Neoptolemus, Greek Mythology Link.
So, in the same way as before it had been declared that Troy could not be taken without Achilles, now it was prophesied that Troy could not be taken if Neoptolemus would not come and fight.
So Odysseus and Phoenix 2 came to Scyros to fetch him, and bring him to the war at Troy.
Deidamia 1 is daughter of King Lycomedes 1 of Scyros, the island in the Aegean Sea northeast of Euboea.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Neoptolemus.html   (1732 words)

  
 3345.Phil.html
Second, Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, must come from the island of Scyros and receive his due heritage, the armor the god Hephaestos had fashioned for Achilles.
Phoenix and Odyssseus then went to Scyros and brought the young Neoptolemus to Troy, where his father's armor was given to him.
Neoptolemus had been born on Scyros, where his father Achilles had been placed by his mother Thetis, so he would escape his fated end ("either go to Troy and die with glory, or live a long life and be inglorious").
www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/3345/3345.Phil.html   (1121 words)

  
 Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ancient tradition associates Scyros with the myth of Achilles and with the exile and death of Theseus.
In 475 BC a campaign led by Kimon brought it under the hegemony of the Athenian state.
It was then that the alleged bones of Theseus were removed from Scyros and buried in Athens, while Athenian cleruchs were installed on the island.
www.ypai.gr /atlas/thesi_uk.asp?idthesis=234   (137 words)

  
 ACHILLES
Under Chiron's care Achilles became renowned as a courageous fighter, but his immortal mother knew that he was doomed to die at Troy if he went on the expedition.
So Thetis arranged for him to be disguised as a girl and hidden at the palace of King Lycomedes on the island of Scyros.
While Achilles' female companions were admiring the craftsmanship of the jewels, a call to arms was sounded and the warrior reached for the weapons, giving himself away.
www.angelfire.com /sc/taichi/achilles.html   (541 words)

  
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She represented the righteous anger of the gods against the proud and haughty and against breakers of the law; she distributed good or bad fortune to all mortals.
Neoptolemus was reared at Scyros and, after the death of Achilles, was taken to Troy by the hero Odysseus in the final year of the Trojan War, because it was prophesied that the Greeks could not take Troy without the help of Neoptolemus.
He was among the warriors who entered Troy in the Trojan horse, and when the city was captured, he killed Priam, king of Troy.
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 SCYROS - Online Information article about SCYROS
Achilles on the island, and numerous traditions connect Scyros with that hero.
cycle of legends relate the conquest of Scyros by Achilles.
chief goddess of Scyros, was on the See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SCYROS.html   (488 words)

  
 Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
With Persian aid, Athens was able to build a fleet, refortify its port, and eventually recover the islands of Lemnos (now Límnos), Scyros (now Skíros), and Imbros (now Gökçeada).
He persuaded Artaxerxes II to agree to the so-called King's Peace, or Peace of Antalcidas, but the terms were those of the Persian king.
Cyprus and the Greek city-states in Asia Minor were returned to Persia; the Athenians were forced to give up their conquests except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros; and the Greek city-states (except those in Asia Minor) were to be independent, thus eliminating combinations such as the Theban-dominated Boeotian League, which had fought against Sparta.
www.utexas.edu /courses/citylife/battles.html   (427 words)

  
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 MythNET - Overview of Heroes
He was hidden by his mother among the daughters of Lycomedes on the island of Scyros so he would not have to fight at Troy.
Afterwards, he helped discover Achilles on the island of Scyros.
Theseus, while in exile, was killed by Lycomedes, king of Scyros.
www.classicsunveiled.com /mythnet/html/heroes.html   (1435 words)

  
 Notebook
Son of the nereid Thetis and Peleus, the king of Phthia, he was raised by the wise centaur Chiron.
Since Thetis knew he was destined to die at Troy, she tried to dissuade him from joining the Achaeans [Greeks] on the expedition, and she later hid him, disguised as a girl, at the court of Lycomedes king of Scyros where he lived with that king's daughters.
But the son of Achilles who appears in all the legends was Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus whose mother was Deidameia, one of the daughters of king Lycomedes with whom Achilles stayed when in Scyros.
www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/Achilles.htm   (549 words)

  
 An Arrow's Flight, Chapter 2
The Greek generals arrived on Scyros, spotted Achilles almost instantly, and lured him away.
Silly Thetis: this was always going to happen, there had never been anything she could do to prevent it.
Starting tiny and then, if he just sat a few minutes, growing enormous, squeezing the air from his lungs and still growing, until soon there would be nothing else inside him and he would be just a shell.
www.echonyc.com /~stone/Features/ArrowEx2.html   (1056 words)

  
 FanFic - A FUNNY THING HAPPENED...- by Ingrid and Beckers
Joxer would be all right and he could meet her in Scyros, where Xena was waiting for them.
I bet you she and Curly won't last half way to Scyros with Dirce tagging along.
The warrior-bard was now very happy that she had left ‘the way of peace’, that which had been taught to her in India, behind because she now had no qualms about asking Xena to thump him hard upside the head.
members.tripod.com /~FamousGroupie3/fanficfunnything.html   (4048 words)

  
 Achilles - Olga's Gallery
To prevent his going to war, Thetis hid her son on Scyros, in the court of the king Lycomedes.
As the prophecy said that without Achilles the Greeks would never conquer Troy, Odysseus immediately hurried to Scyros.
The Greeks brought rich gifts to the daughters of Lycomedes, but among the women’s garments and accessories they also put a spear and a sword.
www.abcgallery.com /mythology/achilles.html   (312 words)

  
 Neoptolemus, Greece, Greek mythology
Achilles son with Deidamia of Scyros, who was one of the men that hid in the Trojan horse.
After the war he got Andromache as his slave and from them the Molossan house originated.
The texts, photographs, drawings and animations may not be copied and displayed in any way without written permission.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/neoptolemus.htm   (89 words)

  
 Detail Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Greek mythical hero of the island of Scyros, the son of the Thessalian hero Achilles and the princess Deidameia.
Neoptolemus ("new warrior") was begotten while Achilles was hiding among the Women of Scyros in an attempt to avoid serving in the Trojan War.
Homer's epic poem the Odyssey mentions that Neoptolemus himself went to Troy after his father's death.
www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0349   (253 words)

  
 Real Legendary Journeys - Season 2 - Episode 2
In the small, behind-the-times village of Scyros, Iolaus practically lost his head after being unjustly accused for stealing the Dragon's Eye Ruby.
Autolycus had originally fled the town of Scyros once he was able to escape the revolutionary head-chopping device by faking his own death.
But he soon found himself back on the road to Scyros and eventually to Corinth, wanting to find answers to the futility he was now feeling.
www.iolausianlibrary.org /rlj/sea2ep2.htm   (12240 words)

  
 What is an Achilles heel? SCIENCE , Achilles was a legendary Greek hero. Before he was born the Fates had told his ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But the heel by which she held him did not get wet - and this reminded mortal.
Years later when the Trojan war broke out, Thetis dressed Achilles up as a girl and hid among the women at the court of the king of Scyros so that he would not have to go to fight.
But he was discovered by the Greek warrior Odysseus, also known as Ulysses.
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 Encyclopedia britannica27s internet guide watson server   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Achilles - Legendary Warrior
Thetis, Achilles mother knew that if Achilles went into this battle, he would die.
She then sent young Achilles to Scyros where he was hidden away and disguised as a girl.
Eventually, Achilles was caught by the crafty Odysseus, who placed some armor in with the women's things and caught Achilles as he was the only one to be fascinated by the hardware.
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 Olorexh alphabet
It was once the common language of all the peoples and regions, sent to them by God.
However corruption in Church and Scyros led to the use of a new common tongue over the centuries, rendering the Holy Books illegible by most people.
Olorexh has no natural spacing, words are separated by circular symbols.
www.omniglot.com /writing/olorexh.htm   (228 words)

  
 Scyros - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
We found no French translation for 'Scyros' in our English to French Dictionary.
Or did you want to translate 'Scyros' from French to English?
Forum discussions with the word(s) 'Scyros' in the title:
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 PHILOCTETES by Sophocles, Part 04
Instant sailed forth, and sought me out at Scyros;
Those arms with thee to Scyros; 'tis resolved."
Thus injured, thus deprived of all I held
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