CASSANDRA
Kassandra (Κασσάνδρα)
Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cassandra.
Cassandra
Evelyn De Morgan, c. 1898
Oil painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, in the collection of the De Morgan Foundation. The prophetess tears at her flame-red hair before the burning city of Troy — cursed by Apollo to foresee the catastrophe and never to be believed, she stands helpless as everything she foretold comes true.
Ajax and Cassandra
Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886
Large oil painting by the British artist Solomon Joseph Solomon, now in the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia. During the sack of Troy, Ajax the Locrian tears Cassandra from the sanctuary of Athena where she had clung to the goddess's image — the sacrilege for which, the mythographers tell, the lesser Ajax earned divine wrath.
Cassandra
Frederick Sandys, 1885
Head of Cassandra by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, dated 1885. Caught at the moment of prophecy, she cries out with wide eyes, her hair and white drapery streaming against the walls of Troy — a vision of warnings fated to go unheeded.