Procrustes

Role: robber · First appears: Fable 64

Life events

• Theseus kills several notorious robbers during his earlier exploits.(Fable65)
  • With: Theseus Periphetes Cercyon Sinnis Scyron
  • “By thy means the country of Epidaurus saw the club-bearing son of Vulcan[80] fall; {and} the banks of the river Cephisus[81] saw the cruel Procrustes {fall by thee}. Eleusis, sacred to Ceres, beheld the death of Cercyon.[82] Sinnis[83] fell too, who barbarously used his great powers; who was able to bend {huge} beams, and used to pull pine trees from aloft to the earth, destined to scatter {human} bodies far and wide. The road to Alcathoë,[84] the Lelegeïan city, is now open in safety, Scyron[85] being laid low {in death}”

Fable 64

• with Theseus (Theseus kills Procrustes.) “This was a name of the robber Procrustes, who was slain by Theseus.”

Fable 65

• with Theseus (Theseus killed Procrustes.) “the banks of the river Cephisus[81] saw the cruel Procrustes {fall by thee}”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.