Cy apres sensuit histoire de cassandre fille de priame roy des troiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de cassandre fille de priame roy des troiens
Subject: The Trojan War; Priam; Agamemnon; Important Women; Famous Women; Cassandra
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Mycenae; Ancient Greece; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, kneeling while holding a scroll of parchment. She is showing this to King Agamemnon, who is standing on the left side of the image. Cassandra had the gift of foresight and predicted the events of the Trojan War and the downfall of her city. She predicted the death of Agamemnon, as well as her own. Cassandra appears to be desperate in this illustration as she tries to tell Agamemnon her predictions, however he does not understand her prophecies (as she is cursed to not have her prophecies believed by anyone). There is a man with a sword beside Agamemnon which foreshadows Cassandra’s death.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19921
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19921_OBJ.jpg