ISBN: 9781890132163 Year Added to Catalog: 1999 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: graphs, notes, sources, index Number of Pages: 6 x 9, 256 pages Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Old ISBN: 1890132160 Release Date: September 1, 1999
Beautiful Cassandra was the youngest daughter of the last King of Troy. The god Apollo fell in love with her, but she refused him. To win her affections, he made a proposal: If she agreed to love him, he would give her the gift of prophecy.
Cassandra accepted the bargain, and she was graced with the ability to see the future. But she could not bring herself to love Apollo after all. Apollo was filled with outrage. Though Cassandra’s gift could not be taken back, the god revenged himself in the most cruel way imaginable. He begged her for a single kiss, and she consented. When their lips touched, Apollo breathed into Cassandra’s mouth in such a way that no one would ever believe her prophecies.
Cassandra was thus doomed to a life of despair. She could see the dangers threatening others, but she could not prevent them. Cassandra warned the Trojans that the Greeks were about to attack, and she cried out to warn them that soldiers were hidden inside the Trojan Horse. But her warnings went unheeded. Troy collapsed under the Greek onslaught. Captured, she was taken back to Greece. Her reputation as a seer came with her, as did Apollo’s curse. “What do you know about the future?” they taunted her. She foretold a palace murder, and her own death, and that both would happen before sundown. The Greeks scoffed. Before the end of the day, everything came to pass exactly as Cassandra had foreseen—but in the long run, it all turned out far better than anyone could have imagined….
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