Polydeuces

Character · slug: polydeuces

Also: Pollux, Aethon, Castor, “Burning”

Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
Helen’s Teichoscopia: Naming the Greek Heroes (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — wall-viewing (teichoscopia) before the Paris–Menelaus duel
Odysseus’s Cretan Lies (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / false autobiographies / *pseudologia* · Homeric — Cretan persona told to Athena, Eumaeus, and Penelope
Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him
Erysichthon: Demeter’s Punishment
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Demeter cult · Callimachean (*Hymn* 6 to Demeter); Ovidian enrichment labeled Roman
Gemini: The Dioscuri among the Stars (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Spartan twins · Catasterismic / Homeric–Pindaric — Castor and Polydeuces as Gemini

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library