Greek rhetorician and grammar
Athenaeus of Naucratis, in his work Deipnosophistae, Book II, cited that poet
Ibycus, in his Melodies, described twins Eurytus and Cteatus as "λευκίππους κόρους" ("white-horsed youths") and said they were born from a silver egg,[3] - a story that recalls the myth of Greek
divine twinsCastor and Pollux and their mother
Leda.[4]
Mythology
Greek legend maintains that the brothers were born
conjoined with only one body but two heads, four arms and four legs,[5] though
Homer makes no mention of this.
Both brothers went on expeditions of war to the
Neleus and the
Pylians, and later led an army marching against their uncle Augeas at the behest of
Heracles. However after the latter made peace, the brothers attacked Heracles and were subsequently killed by him outside
Cleonae.[6][7]
Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.
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