The Cassandra Curse

Cassandra was probably only twenty-six when she died, but she had warned the Trojans

about two disastrous prophecies. One about the Greeks invading the Trojans, and

another about Agamemnon’s wife killing him. 

When Cassandra was first born, she had been placed a

curse that acted as a gift. The power to tell the future. This might seem like a

major plus to the curse, but everything good always has something bad about it.

And that was speaking in cryptic riddles, which didn’t help her to pass the prophecy

through the people, even if she was one of the many children of King Priam. After the

Trojans had battled Greece, the thought they had won because the Greek soldiers gave Troy a present. A large wooden horse. Cassandra warned her people to not open the gates, telling them in the prophetic language that the great downfall of Troy would occur. No one listened, and by morning, 75% of the population was slaughtered. This happened again when Cassandra tried to warn General Agamemnon of his wife, Clytemnestra, slaughtering him.

         This tells us that we usually ignore signs that foresee our future when it tells us something bad.