Cassandra - Greek and Latin Sources

Greek and Latin Sources

  • Homer. Iliad XXIV, 697-706; Odyssey XI, 405-434;
  • Aeschylus. Agamemnon
  • Euripides. Trojan Women; Electra
  • Bibliotheca III, xii, 5; Epitome V, 17-22; VI, 23
  • Virgil. Aeneid II, 246ff
  • Lycophron. Alexandra

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (after Homer)

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