Dioscuri
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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And Epicharmus, in his Muses, says that Minerva played a martial strain to the Dioscuri.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The Asvins correspond in Vedic mythology to the Dioscuri, the Castor and Polydeuces of Greece.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
With him is connected the old German Dioscuri myth of the Harlungen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Like her brothers, the Dioscuri, she was a patron deity of sailors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
In the tutelary gods of the sea-loving nation of the Phenicians the Greeks recognised and worshipped the deities favourable to mariners, and from this side they combined them with their own Dioscuri.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
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