Folly

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

 

Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy ponders on her folly of rejecting the Sun God Apollo’s acceptance for who she was, his care for her, and his love for her and her scorning him.

Considering Apollo’s Plea

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: Apollo the Sun God pleads with Princess Cassandra of Troy to consider to accept him for who he is, care for him, and love him and become his lover.

Envy

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy is envious of other people.

Deadly Fruit

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy muses about apples.

Apples were a common fruit among the Greeks and the Trojans. Both countries ate them. Cassandra could see how the red color in apples was the same color as blood. Crisp and delicious did apples taste to her in her mouth when she devoured them. She enjoyed eating apples alongside bread, chunks of meat, and different other kinds of fruit to eat and fine wine to drink at meals. To end up hearing the sound of the crunch of the apple she ate under her teeth and feel the sweet stickiness of the apples on her fingers.  To get the juice from the apple to run down the sides of her mouth and her have to wipe the juice away with her hand. How Cassandra loved apples.

Beauty’s meaning

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy contemplates the apparent meaning of beauty.

A Brilliant Beauty

By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: A poem about who Princess Cassandra of Troy is and her being a brilliant beauty.

A Biography of Princess Cassandra of Troy

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

 A picture of Princess Cassandra of Troy by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London); standing in front of the burning city of Troy at the peak of her insanity 

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 Cassandra (also known as Alexandra or Kassandra and the basic meaning of her name being “she who entangles men”) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus and therefore a princess of Troy. She had brown hair kept in curls, brown eyes, and fair white skin. Cassandra was considered to be very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, and elegant with a friendly and gentle nature and she had much courage and determination in her, but she was deemed to be insane. She was described as “the second most beautiful woman in the world.”  Her beauty ended up even compared to that of Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty and Helen of Troy.

Cursed More Than Blessed

by Katelyn Abbott

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy and the twin sister of Helenus. Her brown hair  had been kept in curls and she brown eyes and fair skin.  She was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane. Cassandra was described as “the second most beautiful woman in the world” and her beauty was even compared to that of Aphrodite and Helen of Troy. Apollo ended up falling in love with her and he gave her many gifts including the gift of prophecy, but when she rejected him and scorned his love for her he turned this gift into a curse. She would be able to see the future and be correct in her predictions, but nobody would ever believe a word she said. This Trojan princess foresaw the events of the Trojan War where at the end of it she was abducted and brutally raped by Ajax the Lesser when she sought refuge in the temple of Athena. She was taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae and she was murdered along with him and their twin sons Pelops and Teledamus by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus shortly after their arrival in Mycenae.