Cassandra
Family: The Trojans · Role: daughter of Priam · First appears: Book XII · Part 4
In Book XII at Troy, Cassandra, daughter of Priam, tried to destroy the Horse, but the Trojans took the fire and weapon from her hands. Priam called on her to cry out, while a scoffing Trojan called her speech “Words empty as wind” and mocked her as a babbler.
In Book XIII, Coroebus had come to Troy for Cassandra, but “the bride he won not.” At Athena’s temple, Ajax son of Oileus assaulted her; Athena vowed vengeance for the outrage. In Book XIV, as the Argives sacked Troy and carried off its women, Agamemnon took Cassandra captive as his prize.
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Life events
- Cassandra tried to destroy the Horse, but the Trojans took her fire and weapon away.(Book XII · Part 4 · 📍 Troy)
- “But straightway from her hands they plucked and flung Afar the fire and steel”
- Oileus' son assaults Cassandra in Athena's temple, and Athena vows vengeance upon him.(Book XIII · Part 3 · 📍 Athena's fane)
- With: Ajax son of Oileus Athena
- “Outraged Cassandra was of Oileus son Lust-maddened. But grim vengeance upon him Ere long the Goddess wreaked, repaying insult With mortal sufferance.”
- The Argives sacked Troy and carried off its women as captives.(Book XIV · Part 1 · 📍 Troy)
- With: Agamemnon Neoptolemus Andromache Hecuba Odysseus Menelaus Helen
- “And now the Argives spoiled fair-fenced Troy, And took her boundless treasures for a prey.”
- Agamemnon took Cassandra as his captive.(Book XIV · Part 1)
- With: Agamemnon
- “Cassandra heavenly-fair was haled the prize Of Agamemnon:”
Book XII · Part 4
- parent: Priam “Daughter of Priam, make thy lips to cry”
- with the scoffing Trojan (The Trojan mocks and insults Cassandra.) “Then cried a scoffing voice an ominous word: “Why doth a raving tongue of evil speech, Daughter of Priam, make thy lips to cry Words empty as wind? No maiden modesty With purity veils thee: thou art compassed round With ruinous madness; therefore all men scorn Thee, babbler!”
Book XIII · Part 2
- admirer: Coroebus “Ah fool! the bride he won not, Priam's child Cassandra, yea, his loveliest, for whose sake To Priam's burg but yesterday he came,”
- parent: Priam “Ah fool! the bride he won not, Priam's child Cassandra, yea, his loveliest, for whose sake”
Book XIII · Part 3
- with Ajax son of Oileus (interaction) “Outraged Cassandra was of Oileus son Lust-maddened.”
Book XIV · Part 1
- with Agamemnon (Cassandra is taken as Agamemnon's captive.) “Cassandra heavenly-fair was haled the prize Of Agamemnon”
Book XIV · Part 3
- with Ajax son of Oileus (interaction) “Within my very temple Oileus' son Hath wrought iniquity, hath pitied not Cassandra stretching unregarded hands Once and again to me”
- with Athena (Cassandra sought Athena's aid in her temple.) “Within my very temple Oileus' son Hath wrought iniquity, hath pitied not Cassandra stretching unregarded hands Once and again to me; nor did he dread My might, nor reverenced in his wicked heart The Immortal, but a deed intolerable He did.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.