“LESSER” AJAX ATTACKS CASSANDRA IN THE TEMPLE OF ATHENA
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora ca. 450 B.C.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
“A number of ancient Greek texts recount that, when the Greeks sacked Troy, Cassandra, the most beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam, took refuge at the statue of Athena, but Ajax tore her away and raped her, thus committing sacrilege against Athena.”
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