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Posted by andrew on 09/12/07 22:29
On 2007-09-11, Neredbojias <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:51:20
> GMT Ben C scribed:
[...]
>>> I'm like that mythology guy who was always right but never believed.
>>
>> Cassandra wasn't a guy.
>
> Are you trying to tell me that back in the past they believed in some
> _woman_ who was always right? Hah, no wonder they call it _myth_ology!
You may be pleased to know that Cassandra, who in the Iliad was the
sister of Hector, gained her power of prophecy by sleeping with
Apollo. She gained the curse of not being believed when she refused to
sleep with him any more. Moral: whn a god wants to sleep with you...
In literature her great moment is in Aeschylus's Agamemnon where she
prophesies Agamemnon's death to the elders _while_ it is happening
offstage. She is then killed by Agamemnon's wife and murderer
Clytemnestra.
Am I [OT] yet?
Andrew
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