Cassandra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Cassandra (/kassándra/; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα Kassandra, also Κασάνδρα) may refer to two women:

Cassandra, a Trojan princess as daughter of King Priam and Hecuba.[1]
Cassandra,[2] another name for Philonoe, wife of Bellerophon.[3] Otherwise, she was also known under several other names: Alkimedousa,[4] Anticleia,[5] or Pasandra.[2] By the hero, Cassandra became the mother of Isander (Peisander),[6] Hippolochus and Laodamia.

Notes

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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