Castor

Family: Greek · Role: horse-breaker · First appears: BOOK III

Life events

• Helen unknowingly learns that her brothers Castor and Pollux are already dead.(BOOK III · 📍 Lacedaemon)
  • With: Helen Pollux
  • “She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.”

BOOK III

• siblings with Helen “Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”
• siblings with Pollux “I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”

Also listed in Greek — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.