... she was endowed with prophetic powers yet still refused him. In turn, Apollo made sure that Cassandra would be a prophetess that no one would believe. In the future, Cassandra became filled with visions of importance yet no one saw truth in her predictions, specifically the Chorus in "Agamemnon ", who did not believe her cautionary words about the imminent death of her and King ... ' "Eumenides. " After murdering his mother and stepfather, Orestes runs to the temple of Apollo for shelter against the Furies for his justified blood crime. The play itself even opens with a monologue from an...

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