Cassandra

Cassandra Cassandra, was a daughter of Hecuba and King Priam, the rulers of Troy during the Trojan War according to Homer's Iliad. Cassandra was a beautiful young woman, blessed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo, who was infatuated with her. Unfortunately, she shunned Apollo at the last minute and he added a twist to her gift; Cassandra was doomed to tell the truth, but never to be believed. "I promised consent to Apollo but broke my word... and ever since that fault I could persuade no one." [Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1208ff.] "Have I missed the mark, or, like true archer, do I strike my quarry' Or am I prophet of lies, a babbler from door to door'" [Cassandra. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1194] For this reason Cassandra was not believed when, near the end of the Trojan War, she said that there was an armed force hidden in the wooden horse that the Achaeans had abandoned. King Priam did not know what to do with her, so he tried to keep Cassandra locked up and out of the way of the warriors of Troy. When Troy finally fell to the Greek invaders, Cassandra was attacked and supposedly raped by the Greek warrior Ajax cassandra, agamemnon, palace, inside, clytaemnestra, apollo, war, troy, stage, greek, movement, death, wife, visual, public, prophetic, procession, parade, outside, king, enter, chorus, cassandra’s, between, aeschylus, upon, trojan, tragedy, towards, state, scene, represents, purple, own, out, lover, iphigeneia, hero, god, fate, ecstatic, during, door, clytemnestra, both, being, agamemnon's, after, woman, witness