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Sinis
Description:
Killed by
Theseus
on the road to
Athens
.
Genealogy
Mother:
Sylea
Father:
Damastes
Place
Isthmus
Events
Sinis the pinebender forces travelers to help him bend pine trees to the ground and then unexpectedly let go, catapulting the victim through the air
Theseus kills Sinis the Pine-bender in the way he killed the passers-by
Citations
Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 16.2
Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 37.4
Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 1.4
Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 25.7
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