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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CASSANDRA , in See also:

Greek See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, daughter of See also:

PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)

Priam and See also:

HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n)

Hecuba. She was beloved of See also:

APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo, who promised to bestow on her the spirit of prophecy if she would comply with his desires. Cassandra accepted the proposal; but no sooner had she obtained the See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift than she laughed at the tempter, and refused to fulfil her promise. Apollo revenged himself by ordaining that her predictions should be discredited (See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii. 12. 5) ; and hence it was in vain that on the arrival of See also:

HELEN

Helen she prophesied the ruin of See also:

Troy. On the See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of that See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city she was ravished by See also:

Ajax, the son of Ozleus, in the See also:

temple of See also:

MINERVA

Minerva (See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo vi. p. 264). In the See also:

DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution of the See also:

BOOTY (apparently influenced by " boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an adaptation from an earlier form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin)

booty, Cassandra See also:

fell to the See also:

lot of See also:

AGAMEMNON

Agamemnon; but again her foresight was useless, for he would not believe her prediction that he should perish in his own See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. The prophecy was fulfilled, for both were slain through the intrigues of Clytaemnestra (Odyssey, xi. 421 ff.). It is to be noticed that there is no mention in See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer of her prophetic gifts.

Together with Apollo, she was worshipped under the name of Alexandra.

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