Cassandra

Greek mythology · heroine · true prophecy, disbelieved

Trojan princess granted prophecy by Apollo and cursed, when she refused him, never to be believed. She foresaw the horse, the fall, her own murder in Agamemnon's house, and was dismissed as mad each time.

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The Fall of Troy

After ten years of siege, Odysseus conceives the wooden horse and Troy drags its own doom through the gates. The city burns: Priam is cut down at his altar, Cassandra's warnings are vindicated too late, Menelaus reclaims Helen, and Aeneas escapes the flames carrying his father on his back.