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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 4320510, member: 99554&quot;]Thanks for the precision. It is in fact the truth in &quot;modern&quot;mythology, but it was not the case at the beginning of the legend. The story had changed a bit over the centuries: Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, already appear in the <b><i>Iliad</i> </b>(8th century BC) which names &quot;Castor, the horse trainer, and Pollux, the pugilist&quot;. The poem does not mention the names of their parents, but Helena names them like her brothers; the <b><i>Odyssey</i> </b>(8th century BC), on the other hand, makes them both the sons of Tyndareus and Leda . They are both sons of Zeus in the <i><b>Catalogue of women</b></i> ( 6th century BC) of the pseudo-Hesiod and in the <b><i>Homeric Hymns</i></b> (7th century BC) whose hymn addressed to them qualifies them for the first time as &quot;Dioscuri&quot; . The <b><i>Cypria Songs</i> </b>(7th century BC) introduce the motive according to which Castor is mortal and Pollux immortal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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