Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces) are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. Their mother was...
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The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) was an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. It was originally built...
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Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 by the Académie royale de musique at its...
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Castor and Pollux were two elephants kept at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. They were killed and eaten, along with many other animals from the zoo...
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constellations today. Its name is Latin for twins, and it is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. Its old astronomical symbol...
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Castor and Pollux may refer to: Castor and Pollux, in Greek and Roman mythology, the twin sons of Lēda and Zeus/Tyndareus, who were transformed into the...
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Face/Off (redirect from Castor Troy)
Malcolm Walsh to take on Castor Troy's face, voice, and appearance. Archer-as-Troy is taken to the same high-security prison where Pollux is being held in order...
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Leda (mythology) (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
children in Greek mythology: Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and the twins Castor and Pollux. Leda and the Swan was a popular motif in the visual arts, particularly...
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The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at...
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a magnitude fainter than 'β' (beta) Geminorum, Pollux. Hierarchy of orbits in the Castor system Castor is a multiple star system made up of six individual...
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Helen of Troy (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda or Nemesis, and the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. She was married first...
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star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Pollux refers to the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek and Roman mythology. In 2016, the International Astronomical...
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Castor and Pollux, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology. It is known as a positive, mutable sign. In Babylonian astronomy, the stars Pollux and Castor...
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twins Castor and Pollux in Greco-Roman mythology Castor or CASTOR may also refer to: Castor (rocket stage), a family of solid-fuel rocket stages Castor (software)...
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free dictionary. Kastor may refer to: Castor and Pollux, twin brothers in Greek and Roman mythology Kastor und Pollux, a complex of two towers in Frankfurt...
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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (category Castor and Pollux)
painting depicts the mortal Castor and the immortal Pollux abducting Phoebe and Hilaeira, daughters of Leucippus of Messenia. Castor the horse-tamer is recognisable...
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returned to Poland. The vessel was decommissioned in 1955 and scrapped in 1958. Castor and Pollux, acquired at the same time, were the first tugboats in...
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Anakeion (category Castor and Pollux)
a temple in Athens, which was situated near the Acropolis and dedicated to Castor and Pollux.: 20 The name of the temple derives from the Greek Ἄνακες...
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Twins in mythology (section Greek and Roman mythology)
Castor and Pollux share a bond so strong that when mortal Castor dies, Pollux gives up half of his immortality to be with his brother. Castor and Pollux...
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Pollux, named after the Gemini twins of Roman mythology. Castor's peak is at an elevation of 4,225 m (13,862 ft), and it lies between Breithorn and the...
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after Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri of Greek and Roman mythology. Pollux and Kastor were designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and built between 1994 and 1997...
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Zeus (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Greek gods Agetor Ambulia – Spartan epithet used for Athena, Zeus, and Castor and Pollux Hetairideia – Thessalian Festival to Zeus Temple of Zeus, Olympia...
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centered, casting shadow onto Castor Temple (upper left) Pollux Temple (upper left), with Sapphire Canyon, from Tonto Trail Pollux Temple centered in distance...
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in the Roman forum. It was here in Roman legend that the deities Castor and Pollux watered their horses after bringing news of the Roman victory at the...
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St. Elmo's fire (redirect from Saint elmo's fire and corona)
Ἑλένη), literally meaning "torch", with two instances referred to as Castor and Pollux, names of the mythological twin brothers of Helen. After the medieval...
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Divine twins (section In mythology and religion)
sky-god, Greek: the Diós-kouroi (Castor and Pollux), the "boys of Zeus", the sky-god. Italic: both Paelignian Ioviois Pvclois and Marsian Ioveis Pvcles are interpreted...
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statues of the Dioscuri, the marble renditions of Castor and Pollux, from the Temple of Castor and Pollux, and two statues of marble weapons from the it:Ninfeo...
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Miechowita in the 16th century where he presents them as equivalents of Castor and Pollux and the sons of the goddess Łada, the equivalent of Leda. There is no...
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fierce and bloody, and the outcome is only decided when the twin gods Castor and Pollux descend to the battlefield on the side of Rome. So spake he; and was...
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Valle dei Templi (category Buildings and structures in the Province of Agrigento)
It is characterized by the use of large scale atlases. Temple of Castor and Pollux. Despite its remains including only four columns, it is now the symbol...
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