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Castor

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Castor
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The source calls Castor a hero and says he has the rank of gods, but does not explicitly identify him as a god.

Aliases

1

breaker of horses

Epithet · Reported

Location presence

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0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Remembered

Castor, breaker of horses, alternates death and life with Pollux every other day and holds divine rank.

See evidence text
“Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer. Both these heroes are lying under the earth, though they are still alive, for by a special dispensation of Jove, they die and come to life again, each one of them every other day throughout all time, and they have the rank of gods”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Reported
“Castor breaker of horses”

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 24

‘And I saw Leda the wife of Tyndarus, who bore him two famous sons, Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer. Both these heroes are lying under the earth, though they are still alive, for by a special dispensation of Jove, they die and come to life again, each one of them every other day throughout all time, and they have the rank of gods.