Cassandra

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.7 Cassandra

  Trojan prophetess dragged from Minerva's altar at Troy's fall; recalled as a beauty in disorder.

• The Art of Love §2.20 Priam's daughter

  Cassandra, daughter of Priam, taken as Agamemnon's concubine — the prize that shamed the victor.

• The Art of Love §3.22 daughter born to Priam

  Cassandra, the unheeded prophetess; had Troy used her precepts, it would still stand.

• The Heroides §5 your sister

  Cassandra, Paris's prophetess sister, whose loose-haired prophecy foretold Helen's coming and Troy's ruin.

• The Heroides §16 Cassandra

  Paris's prophetess sister, who foretold that he would bring back 'fires' (ruin) from his voyage.

• The Heroides §16 my sister

  Cassandra, who foretold Paris would be 'pierced by a heavenly arrow' of love.

• Metamorphoses §13.405 priestess of Phoebus

  Cassandra, daughter of Priam and prophetess of Apollo, dragged from the temple at Troy's fall.