Sons of the Dioscuri
The sons of the Dioscuri were worshiped in antiquity together with their fathers Castor and Polydeukes (Pollux). They were called Anaxias and Mnasinous, where Anaxias was the son of Castor and Hilaeira and Mnasinous was the son of Polydeukes and Phoibe. They were mostly shown sitting on horseback, for example in the Anakion in Athens . The artist Bathykles von Magnesia had also depicted her like this on the throne of Amyklaios in Amyklai . In the temple of the Dioscuri in Argos there was a group of statues, the work of Dipoinos and Skyllis , which showed the two of them together with their mothers. Nothing has been reported of their deeds.
Names
The names of the sons of the Dioscuri are given very differently. In addition to Mnasinous, the forms Mnesinoos and Mnesileos appear and next to Anaxias also Anaxis, Anagon and Anogon. Johannes Tzetzes even states that there are not just two but four sons. The sons of Castor and Hilaeira are Mnesileos and Asineos, and of Polydeukes and Phoibe Anagon and Aulothos.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus , 3, 11, 2 (or 3, 134)
- ↑ Pausanias , Reisen in Greece , Volume 1, 18, 1., Artemis & Winkler 2001, ISBN 3-7608-4088-4
- ^ Pausanias, Travel in Greece , Vol. 3, 18, 13, Artemis & Winkler 2001, ISBN 3-7608-4089-2
- ^ Pausanias, Reisen in Greece , Vol. 2, 22, 5., Artemis & Winkler 2001, ISBN 3-7608-4090-6
- ^ Johannes Tzetzes, ad Lycophronem , 511.