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'''Cassandra''' was the High Priestess of [[Troy]] and the daughter of King [[Priam]]. The [[First Doctor]]'s [[companion]] [[Katarina]] served as her handmaiden. She was the sister of [[Paris (The Myth Makers)|Paris]], [[Hector]] and [[Troilus]]. | '''Cassandra''' was the High Priestess of [[Troy]] and the daughter of King [[Priam]]. The [[First Doctor]]'s [[companion]] [[Katarina]] served as her handmaiden. She was the sister of [[Paris (The Myth Makers)|Paris]], [[Hector]] and [[Troilus]]. | ||
For a time prior to the arrival of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], Cassandra had had nightmares of the future. A mean-spirited and vindictive sort, she nevertheless warned Priam and those associated with her that doom would come to Troy, the people of which had long failed to take her seriously. When [[Vicki Pallister]], later called Cressida, emerged from the TARDIS, which the Trojans had taken to the city, Cassandra immediately accused her of practising [[witchcraft]]. She warned of the [[Trojan Horse]], a plan put into action by the First Doctor, borrowing the idea from [[Homer]], but to no avail. | For a time prior to the arrival of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], Cassandra had had nightmares of the [[future]]. A mean-spirited and vindictive sort, she nevertheless warned Priam and those associated with her that doom would come to Troy, the people of which had long failed to take her seriously. When [[Vicki Pallister]], later called Cressida, emerged from the TARDIS, which the Trojans had taken to the city, Cassandra immediately accused her of practising [[witchcraft]]. She warned of the [[Trojan Horse]], a plan put into action by the First Doctor, borrowing the idea from [[Homer]], but to no avail. | ||
After the fall of Troy, in which her father and her brother Paris were killed, she became the slave of the [[Greek]] warlord [[Agamemnon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | After the fall of Troy, in which her father and her brother Paris were killed, she became the slave of the [[Greek]] warlord [[Agamemnon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | ||
Cassandra chose Katarina as her handmaiden as she predicted that she would die. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scribbles in Chalk (short story)|Scribbles in Chalk]]'') | |||
In [[1963]], [[Susan Foreman]] recalled in her [[Susan Foreman's diary|diary]] that Cassandra was [[kick]]ed to [[death]] for being able to see the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') | |||
Cassandra was resurrected in the [[City of the Saved]] as a young woman. In [[AF 291]], while on [[the Tube]], Cassandra prophesied in painstaking detail the imminent [[City of the Saved Civil War|Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prologue to Of the City of the Saved... (short story)|Prologue to Of the City of the Saved...]]'') | |||
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