Dioscuri
deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the Dioscuri · Sons of Zeus · Tyndaridae · children · sons of great Zeus · these two
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Orations
Twin gods Castor and Pollux, identified as helmsmen's name for Fortune and as deities despised by Alexander.
To her the farmers have given the name of Demeter, the shepherds of Pan, the sailors of Leucothea, the helmsmen of the Dioscuri.
Orestes
Divine twin sons of Zeus and Leda, brothers of Clytemnestra and Helen, invoked as a standard of honor shown to Orestes.
for they both honored me no less than the Dioscuri.
The Histories
Divine twin sons of Zeus said, in Arcadian legend, to have once been given lodging by Euphorion, father of the suitor Laphanes.
and an Azenian from the town of Paeus, Laphanes, son of that Euphorion who, as the Arcadian tale relates, gave lodging to the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men;
Hymn 33 To the Dioscuri
The twin figures Castor and Polydeuces, praised as sons of Zeus and Leda who rescue sailors and ships from storms at sea.
Bright-eyed Muses, tell of the Tyndaridae, the Sons of Zeus, glorious children of neat-ankled Leda, Castor the tamer of horses, and blameless Polydeuces.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The divine twins Castor and Pollux, whose temple at Corcyra briefly shelters suppliant oligarchs.
They, fearing that they should be sent off to Athens, seated themselves [as suppliants] in the temple of the Dioscuri;
Hellenica
Mythic Lacedaemonian figures invoked by Callias as recipients of Athenian sacred knowledge.
The right course, indeed, would have been for us not to take up arms against one another in the beginning, since the tradition is that the first strangers to whom Triptolemus, our ancestor, revealed the mystic rites of Demeter and Core were Heracles, your state’s founder, and the Dioscuri, your citizens;