Scamon of Mytilene

Scamon of Mytilene was an ancient Greek historian. He wrote a treatise entitled (alternatively translated as about "discoveries" or "inventions"). According to the Suda, Scamon claimed that Actaeus named the Phoenician letters in honor of his daughter Phoenice after she died a virgin.

Athenaeus, in his work Deipnosophists, wrote that Scamon claimed that the satyric dance known as the Sicinnis was so named from ("being shaken"), and that its first dancer was Thersippus.