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Headword: Dioskouroi
Adler number: delta,1209
Translated headword: Dioscuri, Dioskouroi
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Castor and Polydeuces.[1] Aelian: "And there were also two statues of the Dioscuri, large youths, with no beard on their cheeks, similar in appearance, each of them wearing a military cloak over their shoulders; they held spears upright beside them, on which they were leaning, one of them on his right hand, the other on his left."[2]
Greek Original:
Dioskouroi: Kastôr kai Poludeukês. Ailianos: kai mentoi kai Dioskourôn ên agalmata b# neaniai megaloi, gumnoi tas pareias hekateros, homoioi to eidos kai chlamudas echontes epi tôn ômôn, ephêmmenên hekateros: kai xiphê epheron tôn chlamudôn êrtêmena kai lonchas eichon parestôsas, kath' has êreidonto, ho men kata dexian, ho de kata laian.
Notes:
RE Dioskuroi; NP Dioskuroi; OCD4 Dioscuri.
[1] Cross-referenced under 2 homonyms: see kappa 469 (Castor) and pi 1951 (Pollux/Polydeukes).
[2] Aelian fr. 64h Domingo-Forasté (part of 61 Hercher).
Keywords: art history; clothing; military affairs; mythology; religion
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 10 February 2001@13:17:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 5 September 2002@05:41:00.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 12 February 2005@12:15:16.
Catharine Roth (updated reference, deleted link) on 2 March 2012@00:45:37.
David Whitehead (expanded notes, for clarity) on 2 March 2012@03:12:54.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 August 2014@08:17:11.
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