"Ĭassandra was described by the chronicler Malalas in his account of the Chronography as "shortish, round-faced, white, mannish figure, good nose, good eyes, dark pupils, blondish, curly, good neck, bulky breasts, small feet, calm, noble, priestly, an accurate prophet foreseeing everything, practicing hard, virgin". The name also has been connected to kekasmai "to surpass, excel. form of Greek andros "of man, male human being." Watkins suggests PIE *(s)kand- "to shine" as source of second element. The Online Etymology Dictionary states "though the second element looks like a fem. Beekes cites García Ramón's derivation of the name from the Proto-Indo-European root * (s)kend- "raise". Hjalmar Frisk ( Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Heidelberg, 1960–1970) notes "unexplained etymology", citing "various hypotheses" found in Wilhelm Schulze, Edgar Howard Sturtevant, J. 4.2.3 The aftermath of Troy and Cassandra's death.Later versions on the contrary describe her falling asleep in a temple, where snakes licked (or whispered into) her ears which enabled her to hear the future. In other sources, such as Hyginus and Pseudo-Apollodorus, Cassandra broke no promise to Apollo but rather the power of foresight was given to her as an enticement to enter into a romantic engagement, the curse being added only when it failed to produce the result desired by the god. As the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added to it the curse that nobody would believe her prophecies. 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 and Ajax" depicted on a terracotta amphora, circa 450 BCĬassandra or Kassandra ( 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.
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