According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went back on her word. The older and most common versions of the myth state that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek-Trojan war. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed.Ĭassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London) Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy, depicted with disheveled hair denoting the insanity ascribed to her by the Trojans 'Cassandra and Ajax' depicted on a terracotta amphora, circa 450 BCĬassandra or Kassandra ( / k ə ˈ s æ n d r ə/ Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, pronounced, also Κασάνδρα, and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed.

For other uses, see Cassandra (disambiguation). This article is about the Greek mythological prophet.

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