Murder of Cassandra by Clytemnestra.
Hammered bronze plaque depicting the murder of Cassandra by her mother Clytemnestra in a scene from the The Oresteia, a play by Aeschylus. Earlier, Clytemnestra murdered her husband Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, in revenge for him sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, allowing her husband's fleet to sail to Troy. According to one myth, the god Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of foretelling the future and then tried to sleep with her. However, she rejected him and to punish her, he cursed her so that no one would ever believe her prophecies. In the distribution of the spoils after the capture of Troy, Cassandra fell to Agamemnon and was later murdered with him.
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