Dioscuri (Ancient Greek). The name of Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda. Their festival, the Dioscuria, was celebrated with much rejoicing by the Lacedemonians.

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Dioscuri Dioskouroi (Greek) In Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces), Spartan twin sons of Tyndareus and Leda; their sisters were Helen and Clytemnestra. In Homer all but Helen were considered mortal, but after the twins' death they lived and died on alternate days.

Later one, usually Pollox, was the son of Zeus and shared his immortality after Castor's death. Usually Zeus as a swan is said to have seduced Leda, who brought forth two eggs, one containing Helen and the other Castor and Pollox. The twins rescued Helen from Theseus and went with the Argonauts. Castor and Pollox are associated with the zodiacal sign Gemini, and sometimes with the morning and evening stars.

Originally they were seven cosmic gods, for in the days of Lemuria there were seven egg-born dioscuri or dhyani-chohans (agnishvatta-kumaras), who incarnated in the seven elect of the third root-race. These are identified with corybantes, curetes, dii magni, titans, etc. (SD 2:360-2). Later they were made into three and four, as male and female, the four being the four kabiri usually enumerated; and finally restricted, as were also the kabiri, to two.

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Apherides (Greek) Idas and Lynceus, sons of Aphareus, paternal uncle of Castor and Pollux, by whom Castor is killed in a quarrel over stolen cattle or over the rape of the Apherides' betrothed, Phoebe and Hilaria.

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Anakes were deities worshipped in Attica and Argos. The word is a title which means lords or kings, for they were the sons of Zeus (and were also known as Dioscuri). Some have associated the Anake(s) cult with worship of the goddess Helen. It is also possible that the name refers to three specific gods, but evidence for this is faint. Category: Greek gods Other related archivesArgos, Attica, Dioscuri, Greek gods, Helen, Zeus

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Cabeiri in Greek mythology, were a group of minor deities, of whose character and worship nothing certain is known. Their chief seats of worship were the islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Samothrace, the coast of Troas, Thessalia and Boeotia. The name appears to be of Phoenician origin, signifying the "great" gods, and the Cabeiri seem to have been deities of the sea who protected sailors and navigation, as such often identified with the Dioscuri, the ...

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In Greek mythology, Castor (or Kastor) and Pollux (sometimes called Polydeuces) were the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. They are known as the Gemini, Latin for twins. According to Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, kastor is Greek for "beaver", and poludeukeis means "very sweet". They are called the Dioscuri (dios kouroi), meaning the "Sons of Zeus", although the story of their parentage is confused, as it is for their sisters Helen ...

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Since this constellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figures [1], considering faint stars visible to the naked eye, it was associated with the myth of Castor and Polydeuces (also known as the Dioscuri). A myth of these twins heavily concerns cattle theft, and may be connected to early views of the Milky Way, as a herd of dairy cows or cattle, by which they are situated. The orientation of the constellation can vary (since they readily form stick figures whether leaning right or left), though the twins are usually viewed a ...

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Lysias issued some coins which bear the name of the "Western" king Antialcidas on the reverse, in the Kharoshthi script: MAHARAJASA JAYADHARASA AMTIALIKIDASA "The victorious king Antialcidas", together with the pilei (hats) of the Dioscuri, a type typical of Antialcidas. The obverse is a bust of Herakles with the Greek legend BASILEOS ANIKITOU LUSIOU "Invicible King Lysias" (British Museum Catalogue). It has been suggested that the two kings might have forged some kind of alliance, which may have remained until the last Indo-Greek kings, as ...

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Tyndaridae.

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Gemini includes two bright stars, named after the two twins, who correspond to the Dioscuri in Greek mythology - Castor (α), a pretty telescopic binary (actually sextuple), and Pollux (β), which is brighter and more southwesterly. The other stars are relatively dim - only one, γ Gem (Alhena) is ever seen from a large city - and trace out a rectangle to the southeast. The planet Pluto was discovered in this constella ...

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Homer speaks as if there were one town in the island called Lemnos, but in historical times there was no such place. There were two towns, Myrina, now Kastro, and Hephaestia. The latter was the chief town; its coins are found in considerable number, the types being sometimes the Athenian goddess and her owl, sometimes native religious symbols, the caps of the Dioscuri, Apollo, etc. Few coins of Myrina are known. They belong to the period of Attic occupation, and bear Athenian types. A few coins are also known which bear the name, ...

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Pollux, Polydeuces.

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Heteremeroi. See DIOSCURI

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Castor. See DIOSCURI

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Heteremeroi. See DIOSCURI

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Samothraces (Ancient Greek). A designation of the Five gods worshipped at the island of that name during the Mysteries. They are considered as identical with the Cabeiri, Dioscuri and Corybantes. Their names were mystical, denoting Pluto, Ceres or Proserpine, Bacchus and Esculapius, or Hermes.

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Idas (Greek) In Greek mythology, brother of Lynceus, sons of Aphareus and Arene, and cousins of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollox. Idas won the nymph Marpessa from Apollo, and was considered the strongest of living men. Because of a quarrel over the division of cattle or over the rape of their betrothed by the Dioscuri, Idas killed Castor and then was killed by a lightning bolt from Zeus. (SD 2:122)

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Anaktes, Anakes (Greek) Also Anactes, Anaces. Kings, chiefs; applied by Homer and other Greeks to the gods, as for instance the Dioscuri. When used of creative powers, they are identified with the kabeiroi, corybantes, curetes, etc.

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Tyndareus A king in Lacedaemon, expelled and received by King Thestios of Aetolia, by whose daughter Leda he becomes father of the Dioscuri or Tyndaridae, Castor and Pollux. In some accounts both these children are the offspring of Zeus, in others Pollux only, and in still others both are sons of Tyndareus. Most commonly Leda is considered the bride of both Zeus and Tyndareus, and the result of this double union was the birth of Polydeuces (or Pollux) and Helena, later Helen of Troy, who were the children of Zeus, and of Castor and Clytemnestra, the children of Tyndareus.

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Helen of Troy, Helena of Troy Beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda, sister of Castor and Pollox (the Dioscuri) and of Clytemnestra; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Seduced by Paris aided by Aphrodite, she went with him to Troy, and the Trojan War was fought to regain her because the Trojans would not give her up. After the Greek victory she returned to Sparta with Menelaus, and they lived happily together.

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