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Cassandra
Cassandra (, , also ), also known as Alexandra or Kassandra, was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.
A common version of her story is that Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce her, but when she refused, he spat into her mouth cursing her never to be believed. In an alternative version, she fell asleep in a temple, and snakes licked (or whispered in) her ears so that she was able to hear the future. Snakes as a source of knowledge is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, although sometimes the snake brings understanding of the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future. Cassandra is a figure of epic tradition and of tragedy.
==Etymology==
Hjalmar Frisk (''Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch'', Heidelberg, 1960–1970) notes "unexplained etymology", citing "various hypotheses" found in Wilhelm Schulze, ''Kleine Schriften'' (1966), 698, J. B. Hoffmann, ''Glotta'' 28, 52, Edgar Howard Sturtevant, ''Class. Phil.'' 21, 248ff., J. Davreux, ''La légende de la prophétesse Cassandre'' (Paris, 1942) 90ff., and Albert Carnoy, ''Les ét. class.'' 22, 344. R. S. P. Beekes (''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 654) cites García Ramón's derivation of the name from the Proto-Indo-European root
*''(s)kend-'' "raise".
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