The Halfway House

[Lownumba]

FOF, about Cassandra, which was it?....

"J. G. Frazer refers to a couple of scholiasts when he says that Cassandra and her brother Helenus 1 acquired their prophetic power, when they, as children, were left overnight in the temple of Apollo Thymbraeus, and in the following morning serpents were seen licking their ears.

Others have said that Apollo himself, wishing to gain her love, promised to teach her the prophetic art. But Cassandra, having learned it, refused her favours, and then the god, not wishing to take back his gift, deprived her prophecy of the power to persuade.

Serpent ear reams or a horny god?