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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

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  • 94R681

URI

http://iconclass.org/94R681

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