Delphi, The Athenians’ Treasury Metopes – Theseus Cycle, 6

            Theseus vs the robber Skiron. Metope 4. 
This metope fragment shows the figure of Skiron, his body lying broken on the rocks after being thrown off a cliff by the Athenian hero.
Skiron was one of the many brigands dispatched by the young Theseus on his journey from Troezen to Athens. Skiron, the son of either Poseidon or Pelops, haunted the Scironian Rocks on the coastal road of the Isthmus of Corinth, preying on passing travellers. He ordered them to wash his feet, then as they stooped to do so he kicked them into the sea below, where they were eaten by a giant turtle. When he tried his trick on Theseus he suffered the same fate as his victims, for Theseus caught him by the feet and flung him into the sea.

Source: Jenny march, “Cassell’s Dictionary of Classical Mithology”

Metope
Archaic Period
Ca. 490 BC
Delphi, Archaeological Museum 

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