Cassandra

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.12

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Cassandra) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Cassandra) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Cassandra)

Life events

• Apollo granted Cassandra prophetic knowledge, then removed its power to persuade after she refused him.(Apollodorus, Library 3.12)
  • With: Apollo
  • “Wishing to gain Cassandra's favours, Apollo promised to teach her the art of prophecy; she learned the art but refused her favours; hence Apollo deprived her prophecy of power to persuade.”
• Ajax son of Oileus violated Cassandra as she clung to Athena’s wooden image.(Apollodorus, Epitome 5)
  • With: Ajax son of Oileus
  • “And the Locrian Ajax, seeing Cassandra clinging to the wooden image of Athena, violated her”
• Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra, and Aegisthus seized the throne.(Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 Mycenae)
  • With: Agamemnon Aegisthus Clytaemnestra
  • “After Agamemnon had returned to Mycenae with Cassandra, he was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra; for she gave him a shirt without sleeves and without a neck, and while he was putting it on he was cut down, and Aegisthus reigned over Mycenae . And they killed Cassandra also.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• parent: Hecuba “After him Hecuba gave birth to daughters, Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and Cassandra.”
• admirer: Apollo “Wishing to gain Cassandra's favours, Apollo promised to teach her the art of prophecy”
• mentor: Apollo “Apollo promised to teach her the art of prophecy”
• with Apollo (interaction) “hence Apollo deprived her prophecy of power to persuade”

Apollodorus, Epitome 5

• with Laocoon (interaction) “As Cassandra said that there was an armed force in it, and she was further confirmed by Laocoon, the seer,”
• with Ajax son of Oileus (interaction) “the Locrian Ajax, seeing Cassandra clinging to the wooden image of Athena, violated her;”
• with Agamemnon (interaction) “As special awards Agamemnon got Cassandra,”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• with Aegisthus (interaction) “And they killed Cassandra also”
• with Clytaemnestra (interaction) “And they killed Cassandra also”

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