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

• paternal: Tyndareus
• maternal: 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 Greek · Anakes · cultthe Lords (joint title of the Dioscuri)Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.18.1 (Anakeion) (primary)
• Τυνδαρίδαι Greek · Tyndaridai · epithetSons of TyndareusHomeric Hymn 33; Alcman fr. 2 (primary)

Relations

• spouse: Hilaeira
• sibling: ClytemnestraReciprocal of the Atreid/Trojan-cluster genealogy.
• sibling: HelenReciprocal of greek_helen.siblingApollod. 3.10.7 (primary)
• sibling: PolluxHeteropaternal twin — same mother (Leda), different fathers (Tyndareus mortal vs. Zeus divine). The Dioscuri.Hom. Od. 11.298-304; Pind. Nem. 10 (primary)
• father of: AnogonApollodorus 3.11.2; Pausanias 2.22.5 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Homer Odyssey 11.298-304; Pindar Nemean 10; Apollodorus 3.10.7, 3.11.2; Theocritus Idyll 22 (primary)