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• 9 · Classical Mythology and Ancient History
• 94 · the Greek heroic legends (I)
• 94R · (story of) the Dioscuri: Castor (the horse-tamer) and Pollux (the boxer)
• 94R6 · suffering, misfortune of the Dioscuri
• 94R68 · death of Castor: the Dioscuri fight Idas and Lynceus in a quarrel about some cattle, or about the rape of the daughters of Leucippus; Idas, Lynceus and Castor are killed

94R681 · after 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