Cassandra was a character from Greek mythology who had a very particular history, marked by a curse that condemned her to die knowing why and without being able to avoid it. Daughter of King Priam of Troy and his wife Hecuba only had the ambition to have a special power, so she prayed constantly, day and night to the god Apollo to grant her the wish to predict the future. God granted it to him, but in exchange for his love.
Cassandra obtained her wish from a god in love, but he was deceived by Cassandra, who later claimed not to be in love with the god and did not reciprocate in his love, so the enraged Apollo cursed her, making his predictions never be believed by people.. In this way, Cassandra knew the fate of the people around her and of herself, but since no one believed her, they called her a lunatic and she could not change fate.
If they had believed Cassandra, the events of the Trojan War would have been avoided. She even predicted the appearance of the Greek army on the famous wooden horse that crossed the walls of the Trojan city and surprised the settlers that fateful night.
Cassandra in the war was persecuted by the Greeks, in their eagerness to save her life, she went to hide in the temple of Athena, but Ajax discovered her and took her to King Agamemnon who made her his slave. Finally, Cassandra had the vision that he would die with the king on his return to Greece at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, so it was, because again no one believed him. Her power of clairvoyance led her to death.
The history of Cassandra has been taken as a reference by those cultures in which an event is taken as uncertain and impossible and then it is fulfilled, it is attributed to the aforementioned curse. Cassandra is also known to the gypsy fortune tellers, from a Latin American soap opera, in the same way following the idea of the predictions emanating from the history of Greek mythology that we tell.
