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Sinis (mythology)

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trees to the ground and then unexpectedly let go, catapulting the victims through the air. Alternative sources say that he tied people to two pine trees that he bent down to the ground, then let the trees go,
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to Athens, in the very same way that he had previously killed his own victims. Theseus then slept with Sinis's daughter,
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Sinis was the second bandit to be killed by Theseus as the hero was traveling from
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outlaw, Sinis would force travelers to help him bend
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Theseus
Attic
kylix
Staatliche Antikensammlungen
Greek mythology
Ancient Greek
Theseus
Athens
Polypemon
Sylea
Corinthus
Canethus
Henioche
Isthmian
pine
tearing his victims apart
Troezen
Perigune
Melanippus
Deioneus
Oechalia
Apollodorus
3.16.2
Plutarch
25.4-5
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Stub icon
deity

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