Pollux
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the mighty boxer
in the texts
Iliad
Helen's brother, a boxer, whom she cannot find among the Achaean ranks, not knowing he has already died.
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;
She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.