Editing Scillus (section)

{{coord|37.609552|N|21.602752|E|display=title|format=dms|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/31067.html}}
'''Scillus''' or '''Skillous''' ({{langx|grc|Σκιλλοῦς}}) was a town of [[Triphylia]], a district of [[ancient Elis]], situated 20 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] south of [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]].<ref>{{Cite Strabo|8.3.14}}</ref> In 572&nbsp;BCE the Scilluntians assisted [[Pyrrhus of Pisa|Pyrrhus]], king of [[Pisa, Greece|Pisa]], 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]], who had a few years previously compelled the Eleians to renounce their supremacy over their dependent cities, colonised Scillus and gave it to [[Xenophon]], then an exile from [[ancient Athens|Athens]]. Xenophon resided here more than twenty years, and probably composed the ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]'' here, but was expelled from it by the Eleians soon after the [[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]], on the road to Olympia from Sparta, It stood upon the river [[Selinountas (river)|Selinus]], which was also the name of the river flowing by the temple of [[Artemis]] at [[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 (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]), 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 (geographer)|Pausanias]] 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]].<ref>{{Cite DARE|31067}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Barrington|58}}</ref>