person
Castor
One of the Dioscuri, son of Tyndareus and the horseman of the twins; killed by Lynceus, he shared his brother Pollux’s immortality on alternate days.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.11 Castor was to Hermione
Castor, who (with Pollux) protected his niece Hermione; one half of a pair of guardianship-images for Rufus's care of Ovid's wife.
- The Festivals §5.20 Castor
The horseman twin, slain by Lynceus.