Pollux
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the mighty boxer
in the texts
Iliad
Helen's brother, a boxer, whom she cannot find among the Achaean ranks, not knowing he has already died.
She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.
I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer;
Odyssey
Son of Leda, 'the mighty boxer,' who alternates between death and life with his brother Castor by Zeus's dispensation.
"And I saw Leda the wife of Tyndarus, who bore him two famous sons, Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer.