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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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) |
| Repository: | Rónai |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/27479 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/27479 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Cassandra divination Homer Pindar Aeschylus adivinhação Homero Píndaro Ésquilo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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