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Mythic Figure

Cassandra

Κασσάνδρα

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Prophetess cursed to be right and disbelieved — Apollo’s punishment for a refusal.

Apollo gave her prophecy for promised love and, refused, added the curse: no one would ever believe her. She cried out against the horse, against the fall, and was heard as a madwoman. Aeschylus’s Agamemnon gives her tragedy’s most harrowing scene — the captive princess before the palace door, seeing the whole bloody history of the house and her own death within, then walking in to meet it.

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