Castor and Pollux together were known as Dioscuri, who were deities that helped sailors specifically and accepted sacrifices for favorable winds. The twins had different father with the King of ...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the Académie royale and inspired by the mythological episode of the Gemini.

At this moment, it forms a conspicuous triangle with two nearby bright stars, Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini. To echo H.A. Rey in his classic "The Stars — A New Way to See Them ...