# Scillus

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'''Scillus''' or '''Skillous''' ({{langx|grc|Σκιλλοῦς}}) was a town of [Triphylia](/source/Triphylia), a district of [ancient Elis](/source/ancient_Elis), situated 20 [stadia](/source/stadion_(unit)) south of [Olympia](/source/Olympia%2C_Greece).<ref>{{Cite Strabo|8.3.14}}</ref> In 572&nbsp;BCE the Scilluntians assisted [Pyrrhus](/source/Pyrrhus_of_Pisa), king of [Pisa](/source/Pisa%2C_Greece), in making war upon the Eleians; but they were completely conquered by the latter, and both Pisa and Scillus were razed to the ground.<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|5|6|4}}, 6.22.4.</ref> Scillus remained desolate till about 392&nbsp;BCE, when the [Lacedaemonians](/source/Lacedaemonians), who had a few years previously compelled the Eleians to renounce their supremacy over their dependent cities, colonised Scillus and gave it to [Xenophon](/source/Xenophon), then an exile from [Athens](/source/ancient_Athens). Xenophon resided here more than twenty years, and probably composed the ''[Anabasis](/source/Anabasis_(Xenophon))'' here, but was expelled from it by the Eleians soon after the [Battle of Leuctra](/source/Battle_of_Leuctra), in 371&nbsp;BCE. He has left us a description of the place, which he says was situated 20 stadia (approximately 2 1/4 miles] from the [Sacred Grove of Zeus](/source/Temple_of_Zeus%2C_Olympia), on the road to Olympia from Sparta, It stood upon the river [Selinus](/source/Selinountas_(river)), which was also the name of the river flowing by the temple of [Artemis](/source/Artemis) at [Ephesus](/source/Ephesus), and like the latter it abounded in fish and shell-fish. From a portion of the spoils he had acquired in the campaign he had joined against Artaxerxes II (recounted in his work The [Anabasis](/source/Anabasis_(Xenophon))), Xenophon dedicated a temple to Artemis, in imitation of the celebrated temple at Ephesus, and instituted a yearly festival to the goddess. Scillus stood amidst woods and meadows, and afforded abundant pasture for cattle; while the neighbouring mountains supplied wild hogs, roebucks, and stags.<ref>Xen. ''Anab.'' 5.3. 7-13.</ref> When [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) visited Scillus five centuries afterwards the temple of Artemis still remained, and a statue of Xenophon, made of Pentelic marble.<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|5|6|5}}, ''et seq.''</ref>

Scillus's site is near the modern village of [Makrisia](/source/Makrisia).<ref>{{Cite DARE|31067}}</ref><ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=58}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Skillountia](/source/Skillountia)

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Category:Populated places in ancient Elis
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