Three times Cassandra: fair, seer, tragic

For us, the modern readers, the Homeric verses consecrated Cassandra’s beauty and the Pindaric verses, for their turn, acknowledge her as a seer. It is however in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon that the main features of Cassandra’s character are mostly present. This article aims to show three moments in the r...

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Autor: de Paoli, Beatriz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
Repositorio:Rónai
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/27479
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/27479
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cassandra
divination
Homer
Pindar
Aeschylus
adivinhação
Homero
Píndaro
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Sumario:For us, the modern readers, the Homeric verses consecrated Cassandra’s beauty and the Pindaric verses, for their turn, acknowledge her as a seer. It is however in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon that the main features of Cassandra’s character are mostly present. This article aims to show three moments in the representation of the Trojan princess – her Homeric, Pindaric and Aeschylean portraits –, stressing in the chosen texts the relation between the character and past, present, and future time.