person
Cassandra
also: Κασσάνδρη
Priam's daughter, killed by Clytemnestra beside Agamemnon at the fatal banquet; Agamemnon's shade calls her cry the most pitiable he heard as he died.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §13.337 Cassandra
Priam's daughter; the first to see Priam returning with Hector's ransomed body in Book 24, her cry of grief rouses the whole city to mourning.
- The Odyssey §11.1 the most pitiable cry ... of Priam's daughter, Cassandra
Killed by Clytemnestra alongside Agamemnon at the fatal banquet; her death-cry is what Agamemnon's shade remembers as most pitiable.