Castor
Mortal man
A character named in Homer's Iliad. The English introduction is not yet available.
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Mentions in the Iliad
A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“whom I could well note, and tell their names; but two marshallers of the host can I not see, Castor, tamer of horses, and the goodly boxer, Polydeuces, even mine own brethren, whom the same mother bare. Either they followed not with the host from lovely Lacedaemon,”
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Connections
Mother · Sources
whom I could well note, and tell their names; but two marshallers of the host can I not see, Castor, tamer of horses, and the goodly boxer, Polydeuces, even mine own brethren, whom the same mother bare. Either they followed not with the host from lovely Lacedaemon,
Il. 3.238
Sister · Sources
whom I could well note, and tell their names; but two marshallers of the host can I not see, Castor, tamer of horses, and the goodly boxer, Polydeuces, even mine own brethren, whom the same mother bare. Either they followed not with the host from lovely Lacedaemon,
Il. 3.238
Brother · Sources
whom I could well note, and tell their names; but two marshallers of the host can I not see, Castor, tamer of horses, and the goodly boxer, Polydeuces, even mine own brethren, whom the same mother bare. Either they followed not with the host from lovely Lacedaemon,
Il. 3.237–238
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In art
Vincent Sellaer. Leda with swan and children. National Museum in Warsaw. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21996283
Группа Сан-Ильдефонсо. Museo del Prado. CC BY-SA 2.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1190706
Abbondio Sangiorgio. equestrian statue of Castor. CC BY-SA 3.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21141716
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Pilier d'Yzeures-sur-Creuse. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29164714
Zwölfgötterrelief (Marbach am Neckar). Landesmuseum Württemberg. CC BY-SA 3.0 de. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57883748
Portrait of Tribou in the role of Castor from Castor et Pollux. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96912180
Amycus Painter. Hydria of the Amykos Painter. BnF Museum. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47466956
Villa Giulia Painter. Villa Giulia Painter ARV 619 15 Dioskuroi - king and two women (01). The Badisches Landesmuseum. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131164865
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