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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
is an oil painting on canvas completed by
Peter Paul Rubens
in 1618 and presently in the collection of the
Alte Pinakothek
in
Munich
, Germany. It depicts a
Greek myth
in which the mortal
Castor
and the immortal
Pollux
abduct
Phoebe
and
Hilaeira
, daughters of
Leucippus
. In the myth, the sisters' fiancés,
Idas
and
Lynceus
, track the kidnappers, slaying Castor before falling in battle.
Painting:
Peter Paul Rubens
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