Sinis (mythology)
Sinis ( Greek Σίνις ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He was a notorious mugger who stalked unfortunate wanderers on the edge of the road across the Isthmus of Corinth . He was defeated by Theseus .
myth
Sinis was a son of Procrustes and Sylea and the father of Perigune , although according to Plutarch Henioche , the daughter of Pittheus , with whom Kanethus was his mother as father.
He was given the nickname Pityokamptes ( Πιτυοκάμπτης , spruce flexor ). Whenever he could get hold of a wanderer, he would use his gigantic hands to bend down two opposing spruce trees , between which he tied his prisoner so that he could tear them to pieces by the rebounding trees.
Theseus ended up killing Sinis the same way when Sinis tried to ambush him on his trip to Athens.
swell
- Library of Apollodorus 3, 218.
- Plutarch, Theseus , chapter 10
literature
- Emil Wörner : Sinis . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 921-934 ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Plutarch, Theseus 25.4 f.