The Cursed Prophetess: Cassandra
THE CURSED PROPHETESS
"Oracle, in the Ancient Greek world, was a shrine where people
went to seek advice from prophets or prophetesses (individuals who had
special powers to speak on behalf of a god or foretell the future). Besides
referring to an altar, the word oracle also refers to the prophet or
prophetess, and to his/her prophecy" (Cassandra). The Ancient Greeks
wholly believed in these sacred persons. When disease would corrupt a
city, the people would go to the shrines to ask a prophet to speak on behalf
of the gods. Once the Greeks knew the cause of the plague, they would do
everything in their immortal power to convince the gods to relieve them
from their suffereing. In the same way as Oedipus, the king of Thebes,
asked Tiresias (a prophet) to speak for the gods explaining why his people
were suffering, in Oedipus Rex. The Ancient Greeks believed their fate
lay in the powers and oracle of the prophets and prophetesses. There was
one prophetess,......
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