Polydeuces
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
blameless Polydeuces
in the texts
Orations
Mythic hero, victor in boxing.
Orpheus in the lyre, Heracles in the all-in fight, Polydeuces in boxing, Peleus in wrestling, Telamon in the discus, Theseus in the armed contest.
Hymn 33 To the Dioscuri
One of the Dioscuri, identified as a son of Zeus and Leda and praised as blameless.
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.
Archidamus
One of Tyndareus’ sons, mentioned in the mythic transfer of Lacedaemon.
next, that Lacedaemon was theirs by right of gift, for when Tyndareus, having been driven from his throne, was restored to it by Heracles, after Castor and Polydeuces had vanished from among men, he gave the land to Heracles because of this act of kindness and also because of the kinship of Heracles and his own sons;
Chrestomathy
Son of Tyndareus who avenges Castor and shares alternate-day immortality with him.
and Castor is killed by Idas, but Lynceus and Idas are killed by Polydeuces;