- half-brothers in Gr**** and
Roman mythology,
known together as the
Dioscuri or
Dioskouroi.
Their mother was Leda, but they had
different fathers;
Castor was the...
- in Gr****
mythology such as
Theseus (his great-great-grandson) and the
Dioskouroi, he had one
divine and one
mortal parent. The Gr****s used the proverb...
-
Anacaeum (from the Gr**** Ἀνάκειον), also
known as the
Sanctuary of the
Dioskouroi, was a
temple in Athens,
which was
situated near the
Acropolis and dedicated...
- Clytemnestra. This
etymologically explains why
their constellation, the
Dioskouroi or Gemini, is only seen
during one half of the year, as the
twins split...
-
Timaeus mentions that
Atlantic Celts venerated the "
Dioskouroi"
above all
other gods and that they [
Dioskouroi] had
visited them from
across the Ocean. Historian...
-
religious cult,
which was
perhaps ****ociated with the hero-gods, the
Dioskouroi (Castor and Polydeukes), and for the hero Akademos. By
classical times...
- Argos, and the myth ****ociated with it: "Near the
Lords [sanctuary of the
Dioskouroi at Argos] is a
sanctuary of Eilethyia,
dedicated by
Helene when, Theseus...
- Gr**** and
Italian art work and a
collection of Sèvres porcelain. The
Dioskouroi sculpture from the roof
disappeared during this time, and
rumours abounded...
-
Boeotian proxeny stele depicting Athena Alea with the
Dioskouroi above a warship, with the
infant Herakles strangling snakes in the
pediment (369–363 BCE...
- 1898, pp. 148–152 (digital copy).
Phyllis L. Williams:
Amykos and the
Dioskouroi. In:
American Journal of Archaeology. Bd. 49, Nr. 3, 1945, S. 330–347...
