in greek legend, which prophetess was the foreteller of doom?

Answer 1

Kassandra, the daughter of Priam of Troy. She was a priestess of Apollo who cursed her that she will prophecy true but no one would believe her. Her brothers included Paris, who stole Helen from Menelaus causing the Trojan War (Iliad) and Hector who was killed by Akhilles.

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek: Κασσάνδρα "she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy whose beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple with her twin brother, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future. This is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future.

Apollo loved Cassandra, and when she did not return his love, he cursed her so that her former gift would become a source of endless pain and frustration. In some versions of the myth, this is symbolised by the god spitting into her mouth; in other Greek myths, this act was sufficient to remove the gift so recently given by Apollo, but Cassandra's case varies. From the play Agamemnon, it appears that she made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath.

Telephus, the son of Heracles, also loved Cassandra but she scorned him and instead helped him seduce her sister Laodice.

When Cassandra foresees the destruction of Troy (she warns the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise), she is unable to do anything to forestall these events. Her family believes she is mad, and, according to some versions, keep her locked up because of this. From her appearances in various plays, it seems that the incarceration drove her truly mad, at least by the time of Troy's destruction.

Coroebus and Othronus came to the aid of Troy out of love for Cassandra. Cassandra was also the first to see the body of her brother Hector being brought back to the city.

After the Trojan War, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was raped by Ajax the Lesser. Cassandra is then taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae. Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus. Upon Agamemnon and Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae, Clytemnestra asks her husband to walk across a purple carpet, the colour purple symbolizing the gods. He initially refuses, but gives in and enters; but by walking on this purple carpet he is committing sacrilege, ignoring Cassandra's warnings. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus then murder both Agamemnon and Cassandra. Some sources mention that Cassandra and Agamemnon have twin boys Teledamus and Pelops, both of whom are killed by Aegisthus.

Answer 3

I'm sure there was more than one, but the first one that comes to my head is Cassandra. The apple of Apollo's eye untill she rejected him. As a way of getting his own back he tainted the gift of prophecy her gave her my making sure nobody believed her predictions.

Answer 4

if your talking in a myth it would be the sisters of faith they decide when your born and when you die there is the spinier the one who makes the string of like then the one measure the one who tell you how long you live and the cutter the one who cuts the string and you die and go to the underworld to hade's pool of souls

Answer 5

Casandra.

Answer 6

cassandra, i believe

Answer 7

Damacles - not sure tho

Answer 8

Cassandra...... i think!