Tyndareus
Americannoun
noun
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And I saw Leda, wife of Tyndareus, upon whom Tyndareus had sired twins indomitable: Kastor, tamer of horses, and Polydeukes, best in the boxing ring.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
On the renowned race of thy mother's sires there waiteth glory of games by favour of the Graces and the sons of Tyndareus together.
From The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar
Only in a passage, possibly interpolated, of the Odyssey, do we hear that Castor and Polydeuces, brothers of Helen, and sons of Tyndareus, through the favour of Zeus have immortality, and receive divine honours.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
And in she came softly, with slow and stately step, Helen, the daughter of Tyndareus, and wife of Menelaus, fairest among all the high-born dames of Greece.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
While he was thus busily employed, the invasion of Attica by the sons of Tyndareus greatly assisted his revolutionary scheme; so that some say that it was he who invited them to come.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
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