Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek- Trojan War. 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.
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", ... he placed a curse on her, ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings ...
Cassandra was the daughter of the King of Troy and a priestess of Apollo. Cassandra had a gift of prophecy however after spurning his advances, Apollo laid a curse that her prophecies would not be believed. [2] After the successful ruse using the Trojan Horse, the Greeks sacked Troy. During the sack, Cassandra fled to the Temple of Pallas ...
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux) from the other.
Cassandra, a Trojan princess as daughter of King Priam and Hecuba. [1] Cassandra, another name for Philonoe, [2] wife of Bellerophon. [3] Otherwise, she was also known under several other names: Alkimedousa, [3] Anticleia, [4] or Pasandra. [5] By the hero, Cassandra became the mother of Isander ( Peisander ), [6] Hippolochus and Laodamia.
Electra, also spelt Elektra (/ əˈlɛktrə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, romanized: Ēléktrā, lit. ' amber '; [ɛː.lék.traː]), is one of the most popular mythological characters in tragedies. [2] She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, Electra by Sophocles and Electra by Euripides. She is also the central figure in ...
The Trojan Women (Ancient Greek: Τρῳάδες, romanized: Trōiades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE.Also translated as The Women of Troy, or as its transliterated Greek title Troades, The Trojan Women presents commentary on the costs of war through the lens of women and children. [1]
In Greek drama, rape and seduction are sometimes ambiguous. Helen of Sparta is sometimes raped by Paris, and sometimes seduced.The details depend on the playwright. The scene in Iphigeneia at Aulis (Euripides), taking place before the Trojan War, attempts to generalize the rape of Helen, presenting it as the rape of all women, in support of the pan-Hellenic concept of Greeks against barbarians ...