Castor and Polydeuces · Atlas

spoken of as

2 expressions

Dioscuri“Castor and Polydeuces”2 mentions

Protrepticus (Greek) · Stromata (Greek)

these two Dioscuri were mortal men, if Homer is enough to confirm what is said:

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Dioskouroi“Castor and Polydeuces”1 mention

Electra (Greek)

Chorus:

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in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Twin sons of Tyndareus and Leda, brothers of Helen, who earlier rescued her from Theseus but did not join the later Trojan expedition.

And concealing this absurdity, Homer represented Helen wondering at it;

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So the brothers of Helen went at once to the country of Theseus and sacked the city and recovered their sister.

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So I said that among us too these things are told, and besides that I myself had seen at Olympia, in the back chamber of the temple of Hera, a memorial of that rape, in the wooden chest dedicated by Cypselus—the Dioscuri having Helen, who stands upon the head of Aethra and drags her by the hair, and an inscription written in ancient letters.

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ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

Twin sons of Leda, shown by multiple sources as mortal men buried in Lacedaemon.

these two Dioscuri were mortal men, if Homer is enough to confirm what is said:

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these made the statues of the Dioscuri in Argos, and the statue of Heracles in Tiryns, and the xoanon of Munychian Artemis in Sicyon.

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri), twin heroes later deified, whose deification is precisely dated relative to Heracles and Asclepius.

From that point to the deification of Castor and Polydeuces, fifty-three years.

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ElectraClassical · Greek

The divine twin sons of Zeus and brothers of Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces, who appear ex machina to judge Orestes's matricide and decree the characters' futures.

Chorus:

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Electra:

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Dioskouroi:

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OrestesClassical · Greek

The divine twin brothers of Helen, sons of Tyndareus (and Zeus), who share in guardianship of sailors.

along with those Zeus-born sons of Tyndareus, she will be a guardian of the sea, for the good of sailors.

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Helen, whom all your eagerness failed to destroy, when you were seeking to anger Menelaus, I saved her and snatched her from beneath your sword at the bidding of father Zeus, for she, his child, must be immortal, and take her seat with Castor and Polydeuces in the enfolding air, a savior to mariners.

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