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In Greek mythology, Scaea (Ancient Greek: Σκαιά, romanized: Skaia, lit. 'left' or 'on the left hand') was one of the 50 Danaids.

Scaea was the daughter of Danaus, king of Libya (and later Argos) and Europe, a queen. She was the full sister of other Danaids namely Automate, Amymone and Agave.^[1] Scaea was married to Daiphron, son of Aegyptus and later to Archander of whom she had begotten a son, Metanastes.

Scaea like her other sisters, except Hypermnestra, killed their husbands on their wedding night at the behest of their father Danaus.^[1] Later on, because of the murder, Scaea and her sisters were punished in afterlife, being forced to carry a jug to fill a bathtub (pithos) without a bottom to wash their sins off. The water was always leaking that they would forever try to fill the tub.^[2]

In some accounts, Scaea remarried Archander while her sister Automate took as husband his brother Architeles. These two were sons of Achaeus, coming from Phthiotis to settle in Argos.^[3]

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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