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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 09/13/07 00:41
andrew wrote:
> 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?
No. I've read about 30 Greek plays. College. And, okay, last year or
so I read "Hippolytus". Again, probably. :)
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