Cassandra puts herself under the protection of Pallas by Aimé Millet 1877

"POSEIDON: And wouldst thou see that queen of misery, Hecuba, thou canst; for there she lies before the gates, weeping many a bitter tear for many a tribulation; for at Achilles' tomb-though she knows not this-her daughter Polyxena has died most piteously; likewise is Priam dead, and her children too; Cassandra, whom the king Apollo left to be a virgin, frenzied maid, hath Agamemnon, in contempt of the God's ordinance and of piety, forced to a dishonoured wedlock. Farewell, O city prosperous once! farewell, ye ramparts of hewn stone! had not Pallas, daughter of Zeus, decreed thy ruin, thou wert standing firmly still."

-Euripides, The Trojan Women

Cassandra puts herself under the protection of Pallas by Aimé Millet 1877.

Another angle.



Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassandre_se_met_sous_la_protection_de_Pallas,_Aim%C3%A9_Millet_(1819-1891),_Jardin_des_Tuileries,_Paris.jpg

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Quote:

http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/troj_women.html

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