CLA204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Trojan War, Acastus, Greek Basket League
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The dioscuri (sons of zeus = castor and polydeuces/pollux) Castor (mortal) = tamer of horses and polydeuces (immortal) = boxes until they shared their immortality with each other: pindar; the dioscuri fought with the two sons of aphareus; idas and. Lynceus over cattle that the four of them taken in a raid. Lynceus and castor were killed and idas was destroyed by zeus"s thunderbolt. As castor was dying, polydeuces prayed to zeus that he might die with him. Zeus gave him the choice of immortality for himself and death for castor or living with castor but spending alternate days in the underworld. (they shared immortality and death) Daughters of zeus and leda: clytemnestra, the other daughter, became wife of agamemnon. Helen was beautiful and had many suitors. The rejected suitors respected her choice and swore to help. She lived in sparta and bore a daughter named hermione.
