Concept information
Preferred term
94R681after Castor's death Pollux prays to Jupiter to let him die too, but Jupiter permits him to share his immortality with Castor; hence they spend their days alternatively on Olympus and in Hades
Subject
- ancient history
- boxing
- Castor
- classical antiquity
- Dioscuri
- fighting
- Greek legend
- Hades
- hero
- heroic legend
- history
- horse-tamer
- Idas
- immortality
- Jupiter
- killing
- legend
- Leucippides
- Lynceus
- misfortune
- mythology
- Olympus (Mount)
- Pollux
- praying
- quarrelling
- sharing
- suffering
- twin
Notation
- 94R681
In other languages
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French
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German
URI
http://iconclass.org/94R681
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