I thought I'd set up a few links to the myth Prof. Sexson related in class about the abduction of Helen of Troy by Theseus years before. When he mentioned Castor and Pollux, her brothers who come to her rescue, I couldn't help being overwhelmed by the sheer irony, the "an eye for an eye and the world goes blind" of it all. Theseus kidnaps Helen, Pirithous tries to kidnap Persephone, Heracles kidnaps Theseus from the underworld, Castor and Pollux kidnap their sister (from her abductor), and eventually Castor and Pollux kidnap the daughters of Leucippus for their own. The sheer irony of it all is just downright ridiculous. (The above painting is The Rape of the Daughters Leucippus by Rubens).