Cassandra

Series "Great beauties". “Those who have looked into the prophetic abyss will never laugh” - the tragedy of Cassandra once again proved the correctness of this ancient Greek proverb. According to the myth, Apollo fell in love with the daughter of the Trojan king and endowed her with the ability to foresee the future, but Cassandra rejected the love of God, who, in revenge, condemned her to chastity and made no one believe her predictions. No matter how much she screamed that Paris and the Beautiful Helena would destroy Troy, no matter how much she warned of an impending catastrophe, no matter how she begged her father to burn the wooden horse and not take it to the city, all her insights are in vain: mortals are not destined to prevent the inevitable, and a prophetic gift is not a reward, but a punishment, punishment, a curse ...