Castor

Mortal twin of Pollux; famous horseman; one of the Dioscuri. Killed in the Apharidae feud. Pollux refused full immortality without him; Zeus permitted alternating days in Hades and Olympus. Catasterized as Gemini.

Parentage

• Tyndareus
• Leda

Children

• Anogon

Domains

• horsemanship
• protector of sailors

Powers

• Save sailors from storm as a saviour of ships
• Tame and master any horse
• Live alternate days among the gods and the dead, sharing immortality

Epithets

• Ἄνακες
• Τυνδαρίδαι

Relations

• spouse: Hilaeira
• sibling: Clytemnestra
• sibling: Helen
• sibling: Pollux
• father of: Anogon

Sources

• Homer Odyssey 11.298-304; Pindar Nemean 10; Apollodorus 3.10.7, 3.11.2; Theocritus Idyll 22