Plutarch's Lives

Sinnis

Role: robber · First appears: Theseus

Life events

  • Theseus killed Sciron, Sinnis, Procrustes, and Corynetes, relieving Greece of terrible oppressors.(Comparison of Romulus with Theseus · 📍 Greece)
    • With: Theseus Sciron Procrustes Corynetes
    • “as mere by-adventures and preludes, the other can name Sciron, Sinnis, Procrustes, and Corynetes; by reducing and killing of whom, he rid Greece of terrible oppressors,”

Theseus

  • child: Perigune “This Sinnis had a daughter of remarkable beauty and stature, called Perigune”
  • enemies with Theseus “he slew Sinnis, often surnamed the Bender of Pines”

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