Cassandra : Trojan princess, daughter of Priam & Hecuba. She was loved by Apollo but deceived him. In retaliation he turned her to a curse the gift of prophecy he had bestowed on her, causing her prophecies never to be believed. When Troy fell, she was dragged from the image of Athene where she had taken refuge & violated by the Locrian Ajax, & after the War she was the slave of Agamemnon whose wife Clytemnestra killed her.
... sobs of the smitten. Such are their goads that I too must walk in the paths that are common, Even I who know must send for thee, moved by Cassandra. Speak, O my child, since Apollo has willed it, once, and be silent." But in her raiment hidden Cassandra answered her father: "No, for my heart has changed since I cried for him, vexed by Apollo. Why should I speak? For who will believe me in... sister answered her brother: "Yes, he shall fall and his slayer too perish and Troy with his slayer." But in his spirit rejoicing Paris answered Cassandra: "Let but this word come true; for the rest, the gods shall avert it. Look once more, O Cassandra, and comfort the heart of thy mother, See, O seer, my safe return with the spoils of Achilles." And with a voice of grief the sister answered her... house where Troy looked upwards to Ida. Priam and Hecuba there, the ancient grey-haired rulers, Waiting him sat in their chairs of ivory calm in their greatness; Hid in her robes at their feet lay Cassandra crouched from her visions. "Since, O my father," said Paris, "thy thoughts have been with me, thy blessing Surely shall help me today in my strife with the strength of Achilles. Surely the gods ...
... the sunshine of mysteries of Apollo that had still survived from ancient luminous dawns. Priam ruled with might and Hector breathed noble heroism and Paris lived in joy and beauty and laughter, and Cassandra, one of the princesses, could divine in her visions Apollo's boons of light and knowledge of past, present and future. Achaeans, the most powerful of the Greek tribes, and all other Greeks, who... fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error. Therefore my prophets mislead men's hearts to the ruin appointed, Therefore Cassandra cries in vain to her sire and her brothers. All I endure I foresee and the strength in me waits for its coming; All I foresee I approve; for I know what is willed, O Cronion. ... ...
... sons and countless daughters. The first born son was Hector, followed by Paris, Deiphobus, Helen, Polydorus, Troilus and others; the best known of his daughters were Creousa, Paodice, Polyxene and Cassandra, who was gifted with the power of divination.. Under the inspiration of Aphrodite, Paris visited Sparta, which was ruled by Menelaus. Menelaus extended warm welcome to Paris to whom he introduced... side of the Page 21 camp of the Greeks, they saw the wooden horse on which an inscription was found, which declared that the horse was dedicated by the Greeks to Athena. At that point, Cassandra, one of the Princesses of Priam, who had the power of divination, prophesied that the horse would bring evil on the Trojans. But not one was prepared to listen to her. The Trojans felt that Athena ...
... eventually restored to Achilles. Cassandra: The most beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy. She was loved by Apollo but deceived him. In retaliation the god turned to a curse the gift of prophecy he had bestowed on her, causing her prophecies never to be believed. Centaurs: Fabulous creatures, for the Cassandra, being slaved by Ajax in Athena's temple ...
... the mules brought on the body. No one saw them at first, neither man nor woman, none before Cassandra, golden as goddess Aphrodite. She had climbed to Pergamus heights and from that point she saw her beloved father swaying tall in the chariot, flanked by the herald, whose cry could rouse the city. And Cassandra saw him too... drawn by the mules and stretched out on his bier. She screamed and her scream ...
... there are invasions from the 'overhead' planes, there are minglings, matings, meltings, partings. In the foreground is played the shattering last act of the Trojan War. The women - Helen, Hecuba, Cassandra, Polyxena, Creusa, Briseis - are carefully delineated. The Trojan heroes are mythic figures, and of them Aeneas alone stands apart - he is the hope of the future. For the rest, the chieftains and... the house of my fathers! 94 Aeneas dreams that Ilion's streets are on fire and foemen are around him, and Briseis sees thrice a bow releasing an arrow that strikes Achilles' heel.95 And Cassandra sees "centuries slain by a single day of the anger of heaven". Like the Iliad and the Aeneid, llion too - whether left incomplete, or is now found incomplete - is a monumental relation ...
... been illumined and sublimated, even if the "star" Chesterton gives us is an asteroid and not quite a planet. Aeschylus who called Helen "a lion's whelp" would have relished it; Marlowe who spoke of "Cassandra sprawling in the streets" would have gloried in it.... Chesterton, however, has more than one string to his bow: his style can be Elizabethan in effects other than the Gothic — a quieter force and ...
... fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error. Therefore my prophets mislead men's hearts to the ruin appointed, Therefore Cassandra cries in vain to her sire and her brothers. All I endure I foresee and the strength in me waits for its coming; 1 Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy "Friedrich Nietzsche" (Pocket ...
... however, counsel defiance as Moloch does in Paradise Lost, and so the die is cast. There are partings on the eve of the battle—Anchises and Aeneas, Antenor and Halamus, Paris and Helen, Paris and Cassandra. Meanwhile Achilles has learned of the rejection of his offer and decides upon instant battle. There is a parallel assembly of the Greek chieftains, and Page 54 after hearing ...
... the Trojan King ____________________ 1. Girish Ghose, a Bengali dramatist and actor, disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. 2. Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Paris and Cassandra (who was loved by Apollo). Hector was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body three times round the walls of Troy. Page 339 telling Mother that the latter was one of his previous ...
... night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings witherror. Page 90 Therefore my prophets mislead men's hearts to the ruin appointed. Therefore Cassandra cries in vain to her sire and her brothers. All I endure I foresee and the strength in me waits for its coming: All I foresee I approve; for I know what is willed, O Cronion. Yet is ...
... her town and killed her husband. She was later taken from Achilles by his king Agamemnon. This act set off the quarrel between the two which forms the central unresolved problem in the Iliad. Cassandra: the most beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba;She was loved by Apollo, but deceived him. In retaliation he cursed her with the gift of prophecy, with the hitch that her prophecies would ...
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