person
Polydeuces
also: Πολυδεύκης, Pollux
One of the Dioscuri, twin sons of Leda, famed as a boxer; with his brother Castor he answers sailors' prayers in storms (Hymns 17, 33).
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §17.1 Polydeuces
One of the Dioscuri, twin sons of Leda, famed as a boxer; with his brother Castor he answers sailors' prayers in storms (Hymns 17, 33).
- The Odyssey §11.253 Polydeuces
Leda's other twin son, 'good with his fists'. Like Castor he is held by the life-giving earth and yet honoured by Zeus with life on alternate days.