Editing Cassandra (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy (at left) and her death (at right) - Penn Provenance Project.jpg|thumb|Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy (at left) and her death (at right), from an [[Incunable]] German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of [[Giovanni Boccaccio]]'s ''[[De mulieribus claris]]'', printed by {{Interlanguage link|Johann Zainer|de}} at Ulm ca. 1474.]]

Cassandra was one of the many children born to the king and queen of Troy, [[Priam]] and [[Hecuba]]. She is the [[fraternal twin]] sister of [[Helenus of Troy|Helenus]], as well as the sister to [[Hector]] and [[Paris (mythology)|Paris]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Library, book 3, chapter 12, section 5|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%203.12.5&lang=original|access-date=2021-11-10|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu|archive-date=2022-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616054853/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%203.12.5&lang=original|url-status=live}}</ref> One of the oldest and most common versions of her myth states that Cassandra was admired for her beauty and intelligence by the god Apollo, who sought to win her with the gift to see the future. According to [[Aeschylus]], Cassandra promised Apollo favors, but, after receiving the gift, went back on her word and refused Apollo. Since the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added a curse that nobody would believe Cassandra's prophecies.