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Euripides: The Women of Troy
Cassandra, led away as Agamemnon's prize, promises revenge.

Where's the commander's ship? Which way? Come, lose no time, take me on board;
Watch for a wind to stir the sails. The prisoner you will bring to Greece
Comes as one of three Avengers. Mother, no more tears; farewell!

O my brothers, deep in this dear earth of Troy; my father too,
Priam, you whose blood we all inherit! You will not be long
Waiting for me. I will come triumphant to the house of Death,
When I have brought to ruin the sons of Atreus, who destroyed us all.

The rape of Cassandra

Red figure painting
c. 430 BC
Ajax attacking Cassandra

Red figure painting
c. 360 BC
A (politically incorrect) parody of the story
An astonished priest finds a Greek warrior clinging to the image of Athene, while the hand of a partially-lost female figure drags him away by the helmet

Paestan red figure krater
c. 350 BC
Cassandra

Max Klinger (1857 - 1920)

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