Pausanias' Description of Greece

Polydeuces

Role: son of Tyndareus · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 12

Life events

  • Polydeuces defeated Lynceus and erected a trophy commemorating the victory.(Book 3 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Dromus)
    • With: Lynceus
    • “at no great distance is a trophy, which they say Polydeuces put up after his victory over Lynceus.”

Book 3 · Chapter 12

  • with Arsinoe (Arsinoe was sister of Polydeuces's wife.) “And near Hellenium is the temple of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus, and the sister of the wives of Polydeuces and Castor.”

Book 3 · Chapter 14

  • rivals with Lynceus “a trophy, which they say Polydeuces put up after his victory over Lynceus”

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