CassandraKassandra

The daughter Priam and Hekabe (Hecabe); as a member of the royal household of Troy she was witness to the fall of her father’s city and the tragic enslavement and/or murder of the population.

In The Iliad, Cassandra is portrayed as the devoted daughter of the king and queen but in later tragedies, such as Agamemnon by Aeskhylus (Aeschylus), she was given a darker, more tragic countenance; she was said to have been loved by Apollon but rejected him; as a punishment, Apollon gave her the gift of prophecy with the condition that no one believe her predictions; when she tried to warn her father that Troy was going to be overrun by the Greeks, she was ignored.

After Troy was reduced to ashes and her parents were dead, Agamemnon took her to his home as a concubine; she tried to warm him of his impending murder but, because of the curse of Apollon, she was disbelieved and finally killed as a witch.