en 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, another name for Philonoe,^[2] wife of Bellerophon.^[3] Otherwise, she was also known under several other names: Alkimedousa,^[3] Anticleia,^[4] or Pasandra.^[5] By the hero, Cassandra became the mother of Isander (Peisander),^[6] Hippolochus and Laodamia.

Notes

^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5
^ Apollodorus, 2.3.2; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 17.
^ ^a ^b Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.192
^ Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.82b
^ ?Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.155
^ Strabo, 12.8.5 & 13.4.16

References

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.
Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.

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[1] Apollodorus, 3.12.5

[2] Apollodorus, 2.3.2; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 17.

[:02-3] Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.192

[4] Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.82b

[:0-5] ?Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.155

[6] Strabo, 12.8.5 & 13.4.16

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