Sinis (mythology)

Sinis (Greek Σίνις ) is a figure in Greek mythology. He was a notorious bandit who lay in wait on the edge of the road across the Isthmus of Corinth unfortunate hikers. Sinis was a son of Procrustes and the Sylea and the father of Perigune.

He was nicknamed Pityokamptes ( Πιτυοκάμπτης, Fichtenbeuger ). If he could get hold of a wanderer, he turned with his huge strong hands down two mutually opposite spruce, between which he tied his prisoner to let this tear of the back quickly trees.

Theseus killed Sinis finally in the same way as he tried to attack him on his journey to Athens.

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• Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 218
• Plutarch, Theseus, 8