Cassandra
In Homer's epic poem ‘The Iliad’, Cassandra, the Trojan
prophetess, foresaw the destruction of Troy. She warned the Trojans about the Greeks hiding inside the Trojan
Horse, Agamemnon's death, her own demise at the hands of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, Hecuba's fate (her Mother),
Odysseus's ten-year wanderings before returning to his home, and the murder of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra by the
latter's children Electra and Orestes. Cassandra is a tragic figure of literature for her warnings were all
disregarded.
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