person
Castor
also: Κάστωρ, tamer of horses
One of the Dioscuri, twin sons of Leda; famed as a horseman. Hymns 17 and 33 both hymn the twin brothers, saviours of storm-tossed sailors.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §17.1 Castor
One of the Dioscuri, twin sons of Leda; famed as a horseman. Hymns 17 and 33 both hymn the twin brothers, saviours of storm-tossed sailors.
- The Odyssey §11.253 Castor
One of Leda's twin sons, 'the tamer of horses'. Odysseus sees their mother in the underworld and reports the twins' strange honour: they are held by the earth yet live and die on alternate days.