Melanippus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Perigune(parent),Theseus(parent)— Consort

  After slaying the bandit Sinis on the road to Athens, Theseus took Sinis's daughter Perigune as his first lover. She bore him a son, Melanippus, whose descendants revered the asparagus plants where Perigune once hid.