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Piazza del Campidoglio
Pollox's Steed
Rome Italy
2016

Piazza del Campidoglio is a public square on the top of the ancient Capitoline Hill, between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy.

At the top of the cordonata, the stepped ramp leading up to Piazza del Campidoglio, stand two colossal statues of Castor and Pollux.
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In Greek and Roman mythology Castor and Pollux were twin brothers, who were also known as the Dioscuri, from the words dios (gods) and kuroi (youths). Their mother was Leda, wife of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, but they had different fathers. Castor was the king's son, but Pollux was the son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Thus Castor was mortal, while Pollux was a demigod.

The Disocuri are also known as the Gemini (twins). When Castor was killed Pollux asked his father to let him share his own immortality with his brother and they were duly transformed into the constellation that bears...

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