Editing Cassandra (section)

====Before the fall of Troy====
Before the fall of Troy took place, Cassandra foresaw that if Paris went to [[Sparta]] and brought [[Helen of Troy|Helen]] back as his wife, the arrival of Helen would spark the downfall and destruction of Troy during the Trojan War. Despite the prophecy and ignoring Cassandra's warning, Paris still went to Sparta and returned with Helen. While the people of Troy rejoiced, Cassandra, angry with Helen's arrival, furiously snatched away Helen's golden [[veil]] and tore at her hair.<ref name="Cassandra" />[[File:Aias und Kassandra (Tischbein).jpg|thumb|left|''Ajax and Cassandra'' by [[Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein]], 1806]]

In Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid,  Cassandra warned the Trojans about the Greeks hiding inside the [[Trojan Horse]], [[Agamemnon]]'s death, her own demise at the hands of [[Aegisthus]] and [[Clytemnestra]], her mother Hecuba's fate, [[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 predicted that her cousin [[Aeneas]] would escape during the fall of Troy and found a new nation in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Internet Classics Archive {{!}} The Aeneid by Virgil|url=http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html|access-date=2021-11-28|website=classics.mit.edu|archive-date=2014-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213175320/http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html|url-status=live}}</ref>