In the Greek Mythology, Sinis , wire of Procuste and Sillée, is a brigand of the Isthme of Corinth.

Called the “courbor of pines”, he holds to ransom and tortures the travellers by quartering them between two trees. Thésée puts an end to its fixed prices in him faisaint to undergo the same fate. It is linked then (or made violence according to the traditions) with his daughter Périgouné.

According to Plutarque, that could be in the honor of Sinis, for expier his crime, that Thésée created the Isthmian Jeux.

Sources

• (III, 16,2).

• (VII, 440-442).
• ( Thésée : VIII; XXV; XXIX).

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