Callisto (mythology) afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen bathing and so discovered. Upon this, the goddess was enraged and changed her into a beast. Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas. Either Artemis "slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow," perhaps urged by the wrath of Juno (Hera) or later Arcas, the eponym of Arcadia, nearly killed his bear-mother, when she had wandered into the forbidden precinct of Zeus. In every case, Zeus placed them both in the sky as the constellations Ursa Major, called "Arktos" (αρκτος), the "Bear", by Greeks,
Sinis (mythology) to be killed by Theseus as the hero was traveling from Troezen to Athens, in the very same way that he had previously killed his own victims. Theseus then slept with Sinis's daughter, Perigune, who later bore Theseus's son, Melanippus. Perigune later married Deioneus of Oechalia. According to Pausanias, Sinis's death tree was still alive and known during his times. Sinis (mythology) In Greek mythology, Sinis (Σίνις) was a bandit killed by Theseus on his way to Athens. An Isthmian outlaw, Sinis was the son of Polypemon and Sylea or of Canethus and Henioche. Sinis would force travelers to help