CASTOR AND POLLUX ENGRAVING
The Ildefonso Group, Prado,
Loving the opportunity to share another two brothers, Risqué, in this wonderful engraving of Castor and Pollux, enjoys the homme sur l’homme. As the story goes, these twin brothers were sons of the immortal Zeus, who had changed himself into a beautiful swan and seduced the mortal Leda, the wife of the king of Sparta. Pollux and Castor just so happen to be the brothers (clutch mates) of Helen of Troy…you know, the Trojan War. Eventually, the brothers pursued two beautiful sisters who were already betrothed to suitors. The twins challenged and killed their rivals, but Castor was mortally wounded.
Risqué can’t help but think that they would have been better off pursuing the suitors instead of the sisters. Si tragique! Remember that… Suitors not Sisters!!! 
However, filled with “incestuant” love and overcome with grief, the immortal Pollux couldn’t bear being apart from his brother (who had taken up residence in Hades…) so in the end, Z daddy placed both their immortal souls together in the sky as symbols of “brotherly” love. The hatched “youths of Zeus” ultimately became known as the two bright stars that form the heads of the constellation of eternal gaiety, Gemini found in the nighttime skies.
In history the Romans called the stars the “Twin Brethren”, in
In Risqué’s mind they are called… more than just …a little gay!
