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Castor [a] and Pollux [b] (or Polydeuces) [c] are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. [d]Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced (or raped) Leda in the guise of a swan. [2]
Twins in mythology. A pair of early 20th-century female ere ibeji twin figures ( Children’s Museum of Indianapolis) Twins appear in the mythologies of many cultures around the world. [ 1] In some cultures they are seen as ominous, and in others they are seen as auspicious. [ 2][ 3] Twins in mythology are often cast as two halves of the same ...
Founded. 495 BC. The Temple of Castor and Pollux ( Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. [ 1 ] It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus (495 BC). Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces) were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus ...
Julius Pollux (Greek: Ἰούλιος Πολυδεύκης, Ioulios Polydeukes; fl. 2nd century) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis, Ancient Egypt. [1] [2] [3] Emperor Commodus appointed him a professor-chair of rhetoric in Athens at the Academy — on account of his melodious voice, according to Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists.
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux) from the other.
Pollux. Physical characteristics [ 1] Mass. ≥2.30 ± 0.45 MJ. Pollux b, formally named Thestias / ˈθɛstiəs /, is an exoplanet candidate orbiting the star Pollux approximately 34 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins ). It is also designated β Geminorum b ( Latinized to Beta Geminorum b, abbreviated β Gem b) or HD ...
They each weighed 3.5 pounds. ... In 10% of cases, there is a heteropagus (parasitic twin), in which one twin is less developed than the other. In 6% of cases, the twins are joined at the cranium. ...
The name of the temple derives from the Greek Ἄνακες (an archaic form of ἄνακτες, "lords" or "kings"), the title by which the Dioskouroi, Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Zeus and Leda, were commonly known in Attica. [2] : 80–81. The Old Agora, the predecessor of the Classical Agora, was used in the fifth century and before as a ...