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Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon J. Solomon, 1886. At the fall of Troy, Cassandra sought shelter in the temple of Athena. There she embraced the wooden statue of Athena in supplication for her protection, but was abducted and brutally raped by Ajax the Lesser. Cassandra clung so tightly to the statue of the goddess that Ajax knocked it from its ...
Cassandra was the daughter of Priam, the last king of Troy, and a prophetess who rejected Apollo's love. She foretold the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon, but her warnings were ignored and she was raped and killed by Ajax.
Ajax was a boastful and quarrelsome Greek hero who dragged Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, from the statue of Athena and raped her. He was punished by Athena and Poseidon for his crime and died in a storm at sea.
Cassandra was a Trojan princess who possessed the gift of prophecy, but was cursed by Apollo to be ignored by all. She witnessed the fall of Troy, the rape by Ajax, and the murder by Clytemnestra, despite her warnings.
Ajax and Cassandra is a 1886 painting by English artist Solomon Joseph Solomon. The painting depicts a scene from the legend of the Sack of Troy—the abduction of Cassandra by Ajax the Lesser from the Temple of Pallas. The work is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Australia.
Ajax the Lesser was a Greek hero and a leader of the Locrians in the Trojan War. He was known for his bravery, his dispute with Odysseus, and his abduction of Cassandra from the temple of Athena.
Following the sack of Troy, Cassandra was raped by Ajax the Lesser. This episode is recounted in Virgil’s Aeneid , as well as by Quintus Smyrnaeus. In the Aeneid , Cassandra is said to have been dragged by her hair from the Temple of Athena.
The Ajax and Kassandra story appears neither in the Iliad or Odyssey, but an ancient summary of the (now lost) epic Sack of Troy provides its outline. As the Greeks swarmed Troy, Ajax forcibly dragged Kassandra, together with a statue of Athena, away from her place of refuge at the goddess's altar.
When Troy fell to the Greeks, Cassandra tried to find a shelter in Athena’s Temple, but she was brutally abducted by Ajax and was brought to Agamemnon as a concubine. Cassandra died in Mycenae, murdered along with Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
The web page explores the symbolism and legacy of Cassandra, a Trojan princess who could foresee the future but was cursed to be ignored. It mentions Ajax, a Greek hero who abducted Cassandra, and the Cassandra complex, a psychological phenomenon of being disbelieved.