Capitolo 4
"wrong of the corpse" to Troy he would arouse, while groping for of the punishment on
the "Many Men's Slayer" (the pp. 15, 20).
If we ask because men are so blind, while looking for so their welfare through
incessant bad, Aeschylus will tell that the cause lies in the
infection of old sin, old cruelty. There is without doubt in some place a
_[Greek: protarchoses hate] _, a "first action of hideaway of badly" but in
you practise every evil it is the result of another. And the Children of Atreus
it is wet to the lips them. When the prophetess Cassandra, out of her
vague horror to the bad House, starts before to grope verse some
image defined, before and more frequenting comes to the sound of the weeping of
two small children, murdered a long time ago, in an argument that was not theirs.
From that point, more than some other, the Daemon or Genius of the
House--more than his "Fortune", a little less that his/her Keeper
Angel--it becomes an Alastor or it embodied Curse, a "Slayer Rosso" that he/she cries
never for the peace and cleaning, but you/he/she can only look for them in the same hideaway
way, through revenge and, when that fails, then through more revenge
(p. 69).
This terrible conception of an intention of run on his own evil, and blindly
groping toward the a lot of terror it is trying to avoid, you/he/she is typified, as it
it was, in the history of Cassandra. That daughter of Priam was beloved from
Apollo that gave her power of true prophecy. Somehow that we know
not, she broke his/her promise to the God; and, from when its gift could not be
recalled, he added to him the curse that, while she should always foresee
and it guesses the truth, nobody should believe her/it. The scene of Cassandra is a
the creation over encomium or the criticism. The old scholiast speaks of the "pity
and amazement" that cause. The Elders with that they talk to his/her wish
believes, they tries to understand, they is really convinced of Cassandra
powers. But the curse is too strongly. The special thing that Cassandra