Twins

There is an old wives’ tale, more sincerely believed in in the Archaic Period than later, to the effect that twins always and only result from a woman’s coupling with a daimon and an ordinary man in the same night. According to some versions, one twin is a demi-god, the other an ordinary person. According to the others each twins has both a divine and a mortal father. In either case, the birth of twins is supposed to signify divine favour, and to presage good luck.


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