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- Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) - Mythopedia
Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces)—collectively known as the Dioscuri—were divine twins from Sparta who took part in many heroic exploits They became gods after their death
- Helen of Troy – Mythopedia
Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” was a daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famous for her extraordinary beauty When Helen left her Greek husband for a handsome Trojan prince, the Greeks started the Trojan War to get her back
- Iliad: Book 24 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Argument The Redemption of the Body of Hector The gods deliberate about the redemption of Hector’s body Jupiter sends Thetis to Achilles, to dispose him for the restoring it, and Iris to Priam, to encourage him to go in person and treat for it The old king, notwithstanding the remonstrances of his queen, makes ready for the journey, to which he is encouraged by an omen from Jupiter He
- Amycus – Mythopedia
Amycus, son of Poseidon and a nymph, was the king of the Bebrycians, a mythical race that lived in Anatolia He challenged all strangers who visited his land to a boxing match, invariably killing them in the course of the fight But he was finally defeated by Polydeuces, who came to Amycus’ lands with the other Argonauts
- Clytemnestra – Mythopedia
Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned home from the Trojan War, but were later killed in turn by Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son
- Iliad: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Yet two are wanting of the numerous train, Whom long my eyes have sought, but sought in vain: Castor and Pollux, first in martial force, One bold on foot, and one renown’d for horse My brothers these; the same our native shore, One house contain’d us, as one mother bore
- Greek Heroes – Mythopedia
Roman statuettes of Castor and Pollux (1st half of the 3rd century CE) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ad Meskens CC BY-SA 3 0 But many individual heroes had more specific rites that bore a closer resemblance to the rites of the chthonic gods
- Balius and Xanthus – Mythopedia
Balius and Xanthus—offspring of the god Zephyrus and the Harpy Podarge—were immortal horses who belonged to the hero Achilles Known for their incredible speed and spirited nature, they famously drew Achilles’ chariot during the Trojan War
- Odyssey: Book 11 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Hence Pollux sprung, who wields the furious sway The deathful gauntlet, matchless in the fray; And Castor, glorious on the embattled plain, Curbs the proud steeds, reluctant to the rein: By turns they visit this ethereal sky, And live alternate, and alternate die: In hell beneath, on earth, in heaven above, Reign the twin-gods, the favourite
- Jason – Mythopedia
Jason, son of Aeson, was a hero from Iolcus in Thessaly He was best known for leading the Argonauts in their quest to steal the Golden Fleece
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