About A fanlisting is a place where people who have an appreciation of a character, movie, song, etc. can come together can share in that appreciation. This fanlisting is for Cassandra, the Princess of Troy during the Trojan War. More fanlistings can be found at the The Fanlistings Cassandra Image from Jackie of RunToTheOcean.net Cassandra was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, king and Queen of Troy at the time of the Trojan war. Coroebus came to Troy to marry Cassandra, and was killed, according to the more popular account, by Neoptolemus, but according to the poet Lescheos, by Diomedes. Cassandra was one of the most beautiful women in the world at that time. She was also a priestess and a prophetess. Apollo had made her a prophetess because he admired her, but she later refused his advances. He then made it so no one believed her. It was she who recognized that Paris was Alexandros, lost son of Priam. She also recognized the true meaning of the Trojan horse, but no one believed her when she said the horse contained soldiers of the enemy. During the sack of Troy she took refuge in the temple of Athena and there embraced the statue of Athena. The lesser Ajax came and ripped her away and raped her, thus creating a great sacrilege. The pictures of Cassandra often illustrate this scene. Her nakedness references her inferiority. This act was not taken litely by Athena who punished the entire Greek Army with the loss of thousands of men. Athena asked Zeus to bring a storm to disperse and sink the Greek ships when they returned home. Cassandra was a very tragic figure who never received any recognition. Ultimately she was murdered by Clytemnestra as the consort of Agamemnon to whom she had been enslaved as a prize of war. She could be viewed as a symbol for the intelligent women in society. In the Illiad Idomeneus kills "Othryoneus from Cabesus, a sojourner, who had but lately come to take part in the war. 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 willy nilly from Troy; old King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him, whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus made to him." Later in the Illiad 'Priam and Idaeus then drove on toward the city lamenting and making moan, and the mules drew the body of Hector. No one neither man nor woman saw them, till Cassandra, fair as golden Venus standing on Pergamus, caught sight of her dear father in his chariot, and his servant that was the city's herald with him. Then she saw him that was lying upon the bier, drawn by the mules, and with a loud cry she went about the city saying, "Come hither Trojans, men and women, and look on Hector; if ever you rejoiced to see him coming from battle when he was alive, look now on him that was the glory of our city and all our people."' In the Odyssey the ghost of Agamemnon tells Odysseus "And most pitiful of all that I heard was the voice of the daughter of Priam, of Cassandra, whom hard by me the crafty Clytemnestra slew." Bio from Cassandra, the Prophetess of Ancient Greece