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apollosgiftofprophecy · 5 months

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having Cassandra and Apollo thoughts...

thoughts about how she still calls Apollo "the god I love", even after the curse. how he gifted not just her, but her twin with the gift of prophecy. he loved both of them. they loved him.

I know people claim Athena avenged Cassandra's rape at the hands of Ajax but tbh that wasn't Athena avenging Cassandra - that was Athena punishing Ajax for violating the sanctity of her temple.

if Cassandra hadn't been inside Athena's temple, Ajax would have gotten away with it. and in a way, he did anyway.

and then when you think about Cassandra's death...the one to avenge her is the god she loves. Apollo. he cursed her, yes. but he still loved her too.

because think about it. apollo did not give a flying fuck about Agamemnon. if it was just Agamemnon who died, Apollo would have thrown a party.

but Cassandra was also killed. someone Apollo loves, and a favored priestess.

...remember what happened to Agamemnon when he insulted a priest of Apollo? a plague fell on the Achaeans.

and when Cassandra is killed...Apollo finds a way to make her murders pay the price. He gets Orestes to kill his own mother to avenge Cassandra.

frankly, I love them. I want more of them. This messy, complicated relationship with so much more meaning than "apollo got mad because she wouldn't sleep with him". Even with the cursory view I have, I can see there is so much more there.

Gods, I need to get my hands on those primary sources so I can obsessively read about them in full.

If anybody has recommendations on which primary sources have Cassandra and Apollo please tell me

I am begging you.

RAWRRAWRARWR I LOVE THEM👀

I also have thoughts about Apollo and Orestes but that's for another time

#apollo #cassandra #the trojan war #tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek myths #greek myth #greek gods #troy #trojan war #apollo deity #now watch me get hate for this lmao #cassandra and apollo are so much more complicated than what popular interpetation believes #this thought bunny wa provoked because i am listening to one of the cut EPIC songs #it's between athena and odysseus but then i started thinking about it in the context of apollo and orestes #then it spiraled into apollo's motivations for wanting clytemestra and aegisthus dead #and cassandra is the root of his motivation #because apollo defends his worshippers #his priests like chryses #and priestesses like cassandra #not to mention others like manto #ooweeooeeweewwoo #lots of pennies for thought

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