Cassandra

Scion — daughter of Priam and Hecuba, the prophetess fated to speak truth and never be believed (Apollo's gift-and-curse). She foresaw the fall of Troy and the doom of the wooden horse in vain; at the sack she was torn from Athena's image and violated by Ajax the Lesser, and was finally killed beside Agamemnon — her captor — by Clytemnestra at Mycenae. The archetype of the unheeded seer.

Parentage

• paternal: Priam
• maternal: Hecuba

Domains

• prophecy

Powers

• True prophecy fated never to be believed
• Foresee the future truly yet never be believed

Epithets

• Ἀλεξάνδρα Greek · Alexandra · cultDefender of men (her cult-name in Laconia)Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.19.6 (Amyclae); 3.26.5 (Leuctra) (primary)

Relations

• sibling: HectorApollod. 3.12.5; Hom. Il. 24.699-706 (primary)
• sibling: HelenusHer twin in some traditions; both received prophecy.Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
• sibling: PolyxenaApollod. 3.12.5; Eur. Hec. (primary)
• sibling: ParisWires to the existing figure greek_paris — reciprocal sibling needed on greek_paris.Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hom. Il. 24.699-706; Hom. Od. 11.421-423; Aesch. Ag. 1035-1330; Apollod. 3.12.5, Epit. 5.17-22, 6.23; Eur. Tro.; Verg. Aen. 2.246-247, 403-406; Hyg. Fab. 93 (primary)