Character History
Character myths of ancient Greece. The daughter of Tsar Priama, the last ruler of Troy, and Heck, the second wife of Priama, the sister of the Trojan Hero Hero. The beloved Apollo, received the prophetic gift from this God, but deceived the expectations and did not respond to Apollon reciprocity. For this cereal god punished Cassandra, making it so that the predictions of the heroine always turned out to be true, but at the same time no one believed in them.Compatriots took Kassandra for a crazy, heroine raised to laughter and no one listened to the tragic prophecies of Cassandra. However, the misfortunes that the woman predicted was come true - the family of the heroine died, and the city of Troy was destroyed.
History of origin
The name of Cassandra is still used in spoken and literary speech as a nominal one, when someone wants to call the messenger of misfortune. Many ancient Greek authors wrote about Cassandra and left fairly controversial information.
Homer describes Cassandra as a beautiful from the wild daughters, but nothing talks about the prophetic gift of the heroine. In the poems of the ancient Greek kiklikov kissandra, the prophetic gift is already attributed and mentioned that people do not believe the predictions of the heroine.
Eschil in the tragedy "Agamemnon" gives the most popular version of how the predictor gift appeared at Cassandra. Cassandra gave the word Apollon, which will respond to the love claims of God, instead Apollo gave the beloved ability to predict the future.
When it came to pay the bills, Cassandra rejected the love of Apollo and the one who accepted, dismissed the cheater - did so that the prophecies of Cassandra did not believe people. Roman Services describes it like this: persuading Cassandra to kiss him, Apollo spits the heroine in his mouth.
Later, another version of the myth was spread, according to which Cassandra fell asleep in the temple of Apollo. There was a festival and adults forgot about the girl. While the heroine slept, the sacred snakes were completely licked to the ears, so the girl was able to "hear" the coming. According to a number of authors, Apollo is also an overlooking kassandra on celibacy, so that that remains a virgin.
Trojan War
One of the Kassandra brothers - Paris, brought three misfortune, because of him the city fell. Even before the birth of the young man, it was predicted that Troy would die by his fault. Parents of Paris, King Priam and Hoke, threw the baby on the mountain. However, the boy survived there and went back to the city under the guise of rooted shepherd. Cassandra first recognized Paris and, providing that the return of the young man would turn into the destruction of Troy, wanted to kill Togo. Contrary to the foreigners of Cassandra, Paris is returned to the royal house.
The heroine predicts Paris the future when he sails into Sparta, but the words of the girl are again out of attention. When Elena arrives in Troy, Cassandra predicts that because of this woman, the city will die, but people only laughed at Cassandra and found the heroine madness. King Priam ordered to keep his daughter locked up.
Different authors attribute the desire to marry Cassandra with different Trojan heroes, but the bridegroom, whoever he would be, constantly dies in battle. When Danaires are presented to the city of a huge wooden horse, Cassandra seals compatriots not to take a gift, because he is in danger.
The words of the prophet again ignore and the horse will stick inside, for the impregnable urban walls. At night, the choice of selected Greek warriors who were hiding inside the horse. Ched the guard, revealed the city gate and let in the city of Greek army. So three fell.
After the city captured, Cassandra tried to find shelter in the temple at the statue of the goddess Athena. However, Greek Ajax still raped a girl right at the foot of the statue, for which the angry Athena later dismissed the Greeks, and Ajax himself was killed along the way. Kassandra saw the king Agamemenon and put on the heroine of his eyes. To "squeeze" a woman at Ajax, Agamemnon accused of sacrifices and Ajaks had to run.
The Greeks after the victory turned the Trojan in slavery and divided women among themselves as prey. Looking, as compatriots sobs and regret that they did not believe her, Cassandra laughed. Greeks. Meanwhile, they discussed who from women to sacrifice, and the choice fell on the sister Cassandra, Polyken, because Kassandra herself had already been on the bed of Ajax and Agamemnon and did not fit sacrificed. In the end, Kassandra kills the jealous wife of Agamemnon, Cliqueness.
Descriptions, data from various Greek authors, allow you to imagine how Cassandra looked. Beautiful Sineoka Virgo with magnificent gold curls, which laid in Spit. Rabnes medieval authors described Kassandra in more detail, like a labeling woman of small growth, round-eyed and with a beautiful nose.
Shielding
The image of Cassandra has yet appeared little on the screens. In 1974, a black and white film "Cassandra" came out. The film was filmed on the film studio "Ukrtelefilm" in the same name of the work of the Ukrainian forest. At the heart of the plot - the myth of the death of Troy. Director Yuri Nekrasov, the role of Kassandra performed actress Yulia Tkachenko.