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Scyros
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Scy·ros  (skrs, skrôs)
See Skíros.

Scyros [ˈskirɔs]
n
(Placename) a variant spelling of Skyros


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A CHILLES made a mistake: he should never have left the Greek island of Skiros where local legend has it he hid, dressed as a girl, until discovered by Odysseus.
Byline: CLIVE LEIGHTON BORN of the sea-nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl on Skiros until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy - but he goes on to take an arrow in the heel in battle, and dies.
They will visit Bilton Road, where Brooke's mother lived after his father died, the cross in the Rugby Borough cemetery off Lower Hillmorton Road which was brought from the island of Skiros where Brooke was buried, and his statue in Jubilee Gardens, Regent Place.
 
 
 
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