Cassandra
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Cassandra. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
Daughter of Priam and Hecuba , was passionately was passionately loved by Apollo , who promher whatever she might require, and she obtained from him the power of seeing into futurity; but when she refused to return his return his love, Apollo decreed that her , though true, should never be believed. She was allotted to Agamemnon in the division of the spoils of Troy, and was slain by Clytemnestra , Agamemnon's wife. Cassius, C. A celebrated Roman who became , C. A celebrated Roman who became famous by being first quaestor to Crassus in his expedition against Parthia. He married Junia, the sister of Brutus, and joined Brutus in the conspiracy formed to assassinate Caesar , after which she returned to Philippi with Brutus, and commanded one wing of the army in the famous battle fought there. On the defeat of his forces he ordered one of his freedmen to kill him, and he perished by the sword which had inflicted a wound on Caesar. He was called by Brutus "the last of all the Romans." Castor and Pollux. Were twin brothers, song of Jupiter and Leda. Mercury carried them to Pallena, where they were educated. As soon as they arrived at manhood they embarked with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece. In this expedition they evinced great courage. Pollux defeated and slew Amycus in the combat of the Cestus, and was afterward considered to be the god and was afterward considered to be the god and patron of boxing and wrestling. Castor distinguished himself in the management of horses. Catilina, L. Sergius. A celebrated Roman de- scended from a noble family. When he had scended from a noble family. When he had squandered his fortune he secretly meditated the ruin of his country, and conspired with many Romans as dissolute as himself to extirpate the senate, plunder the treasures, and set Rome on fire. This plot, known as the Catiline conspiracy, was unsuccessful. The history of it is written by Sallust. Catiline was killed in battle, B. C. 63. He Cato, Marcus. Was great-grandson of the censor Cato. The early virtues that appeared in his childhood seemed to promise that he would become a great man. was austere in his morals and a strict follower of the tenets of the Stoics. His fondness for candor was so great that his veracity became proverbial. In the Catilinian conspiracy he supported Cicero, and was the chief cause of the capital punishment which was inflicted on some of the conspirators. He stabbed himself after reading Plato's treatise on the immortality of the soul, в. c. 46, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. Addison has familiarized us with a portion of the history of the great Roman in his noble tragedy of "Cato," in which occurs in the fifth act-the well-known soliloquy on the immortality of the soul. Pope wrote the prologue to the play, which he commences with the familiar couplet : "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart." Caucasus, Caucasii Montes (Caucasus). A great chain of mountains in Asia, extending from the eastern shore of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) to the western shore of the
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
in Greek legend, the fairest princess of Troy. She was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, consequently the sister of Hector and of Paris, whose theft of Grecian Helen brought the war upon the Trojan city. According to one legend, Cassandra and her twin sister were left overnight on a couch of laurel in the temple of Apollo. In the morning the sisters were found with two serpents licking their ears. As a consequence, Cassandra was gifted with such acuteness of ear that she could hear the conversation of the gods, and was able to prophesy. She foretold the fall of Troy and protested frantically against the admission of the wooden horse within its walls; but Apollo, whose advances she had repulsed, was angry and caused her protests to be made in vain. At the fall of the city, she fled to the temple of Minerva, but was torn away and abused by Ajax. She was taken to Greece as one of the slaves of Agamemnon, and was put to death by his wife, Clytemnestra. Cassandra was a favorite subject with ancient poets and sculptors. Modern writers also have found material in her story. She appears in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In Schiller's poem, Cassandra, the prophetess is represented as bewailing her fate in not being believed. And men my prophet wail deride! The solemn sorrow dies in scorn; And lonely in the waste, I hide The tortured heart that would forewarn. Amid the happy, unregarded, Mock'd by their fearful joy, I trod; Oh, dark to me the lot awarded, Thou evil Pythian God! Thine oracle, in vain to be, Oh, wherefore am I thus consigned, With eyes that every truth must see, Lone in the city of the blind? Cursed with the anguish of a power To view the fates I may not thrall The hovering tempest still must lower, The horror must befall! Those who foresee and predict the downfall, meet the fate of Cassandra.--The Times.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
according to Homeric legend, was daughter of Priam and Hecuba. She was passionately loved by Apollo, who promised to grant her whatever she might require, if she would look demanded with favor on his suit. She the power of prophecy, and as soon as she had received it, refused to perform her promise, and slighted Apollo. The god, thus disappointed, wetted her lips with his tongue, and thus no belief was ever placed in her predictions. She endeavored to prevent the entrance into Troy of the wooden horse of the Greeks, but was unsuccessful.