Cassandra
Cassandra knows the truth about the Trojan Horse, but is cursed so that nobody believes her. She attempts to burn the horse but is prevented from doing so.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Trojan War era.
Relationships
- enemy of
- Aphrodite, Clytemnestra, Athena, Apollo
- co occurs with
- Polydamas, Philoctetes, The Seasons, Neoptolemus, Epeüs, Sinon, Nestor, The Muses, Laocoön, Zeus, Calchas, Epeios, Tritogeneia, Odysseus, Aeneas, Hera, Helen, Oenone, Hecuba, Erinyes, Medusa, Auge, Dionysus, Pallas, Ariadne
- allied with
- Agamemnon
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Cassandra warns the Trojans of their danger, but they prevent her from attacking the horse and begin their final carouse.”
#40947 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“After a stormy voyage, Agamemnon and Cassandra land in Argolis, or, in another version, are blown off course and land in Aegisthus's country. Clytemnestra also kills Cassandra. Her motivations are her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia”
#42265 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Other women associated with defiling a goddess' temple: Cassandra”
#42440 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Cassandra first appears as a bridesmaid at Hera's and Zeus's wedding. She used to be a princess in Troy. In Cassandra the Lucky, she is angry with Athena, Aphrodite and Apollo for starting the Trojan War.”
#43260 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001