The Trojan seers, Cassandra and Laocoön (Laocoon) tried to warn them not to listen to Sinon, but a sea-monster sent by Poseidon killed Laocoön and his two sons. The sea god's intervention convinced the Trojans that they had won the war, so they brought the wooden horse within Troy...
The main Trojan women around whom the play revolves are deliberately portrayed as very unlike each other: the weary, tragic old queen, Hecuba; the young, holy virgin and seer, Cassandra; the proud and noble Andromache; and the beautiful, scheming Helen (not a Trojan by birth, but her vie...
Cassandra Princess of Troy; a prophetess/seer Laocoon the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse Thetis sea goddess; mother of Achilles Telemachus Odysseus' son ...
Some Greek leaders of the Trojan War come to mind immediately, while others take longer. Read for a list of the Achaean forces and their leaders, as well as some short bios.
Priam was killed as he huddled by Zeus' altar and Cassandra was pulled from the statue of Athena and raped.After the WarAfter the war, Polyxena, daughter of Priam, was sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles and Astyanax, son of Hector, was also sacrificed, signifying the end of the war....
When the Trojans found the horse, only two people, Laocoon and Cassandra, warned them of the horse, but they were ignored. One man, Sinon, was left behind with his arms tied and his clothes torn to shreds. He pretended to be enraged with the Greeks, stating that he had escaped being ...