Cassandra · Atlas

in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Trojan prophetess, priestess of Apollo, daughter of Priam.

and the Trojans suspecting the matter and resolving to burn the horse or cut it in two, but doing none of these, but drinking and sleeping, and that too with Cassandra foretelling it to them.

oration 11 ¶

and that Cassandra, an all-holy maiden, priestess of Apollo, should be violated in the precinct of Athena, clinging to the statue, and that this should be done by none of the base nor the unworthy, but by one who was among the best;

oration 11 ¶

And Homer says that Cassandra fell not short of Aphrodite in form.

oration 33 ¶

HecubaClassical · Greek

Prophetic daughter of Hecuba and Priam, now Agamemnon's captive concubine; her prophetic gift and her bond with Agamemnon are both invoked in the window without her appearing on stage.

farewell, Cassandra!

hecuba ¶

you are surely not bringing here frenzied Cassandra, the prophetic maid?

hecuba ¶

where, you Trojan maidens, can I find inspired Helenus or Cassandra, that they may read me my dream?

hecuba ¶

IliadClassical · Greek

Fairest daughter of Priam, sought in marriage by Othryoneus.

He sought Cassandra the fairest of Priam's daughters in marriage, but offered no gifts of wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would drive the sons of the Achaeans, like it or not, from Troy;

chapter 13 ¶

No one neither man nor woman saw them, till Cassandra, fair as golden Aphrodite standing on Pergamos, caught sight of her dear father in his chariot, and his servant that was the city's herald with him.

chapter 24 ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

Trojan prophetess, daughter of Priam, who foretold that the infant Paris would destroy Troy.

Would God his mother had smitten him a cruel death-blow on the head before he made his home on Ida’s slopes, in the hour Cassandra, standing by the holy bay-tree, cried out, Slay him, for he will bring most grievous bane on Priam’s town.

andromache ¶

Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Trojan princess and prophetess, daughter of Priam, imagined by the chorus wildly prophesying under divine inspiration.

where Cassandra, I am told, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of green laurel, whenever the god’s resistless prophecies inspire her.

iphigenia in aulis ¶

The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

Trojan princess and Apollo's prophetess, driven to frenzy, who is given to Agamemnon as a concubine and foretells doom for her captors even as she is led away.

Hecuba:

the trojan women ¶

Hecuba:

chapter 2 ¶

Cassandra:

the trojan women ¶

OdysseyClassical · Greek

Priam's daughter, killed by Clytemnestra at the same feast where Agamemnon is murdered.

I heard Priam's daughter Cassandra scream as Clytemnestra killed her close beside me.

chapter 11 ¶

PythianClassical · Greek

The captive Trojan prophetess, daughter of Priam, brought home by Agamemnon after Troy's fall and killed alongside him by Clytaemnestra.

He himself died, the heroic son of Atreus, when at last he returned to famous Amyclae, and he caused the destruction of the prophetic girl, when he had robbed of their opulent treasures the houses of the Trojans, set on fire for Helen«s sake.

chapter 11 ¶

Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the just navel of the earth, at the edge of evening, in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath as a victor in the rich fields of Pyla …

chapter 11 ¶

ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Trojan prophetess who foretells coming disaster.

and Cassandra reveals beforehand what is to come.

chrestomathy ¶