Peter Paul Ruben's The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus depicts a scene from Greek mythology in which two mortal women are seized by __________,the twin sons of Zeus.

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Castor and Pollux, also known as the Dioscuri, were twin sons of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology. In the myth, they abducted the daughters of Leucippus, Hilaeira and Phoebe. The painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicts this scene.

Peter Paul Ruben's the Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus