She is passingly mentioned as Perigenia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The most extensive surviving account comes from Plutarch, who states that, after Theseus killed her father, she hid herself in a bed of rushes and asparagus.
[3] Pausanias also mentions that Theseus fathered Melanippus with the daughter of Sinis, but gives no further details.
[4] In the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus she – again referred to only as the daughter of Sinis – is listed as one of the women taken by Theseus by force.
Athenaeus cites the fourteenth book of Istrus's Attika as the source of the information.