Still exploring Cassandra from the Iliad, which leads to thinking about #influence 🤓 That's essentially what she loses with the curse: "the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself." 📖 Meanwhile Helen of Sparta gets a major influence boost from the gods 🙄 beauty over brains 🙄 then again, Frederick Sandys reminded me that society prefers to pit girl against girl. I've also been thinking about grade school days, so maybe I was most influential back then 🙃 "When she speaks, they listen," is a weird phrase to remember, but it's forever in my brain. My 8th grade science teacher wrote it in a note to my parents. Was I an anti-Cassandra? Wielding such power without even speaking most of the time 😆 Who else peaked in middle school? Just me? 💁♀️ #cassandracomplex #iliad #helenoftroy #cassandra #fuckthepatriarchy #preraphaelite #arthistorybuff https://www.instagram.com/p/CmP-ZQnsqbUMJqhp3Tg-WZ3tLzRrRijhanFmlA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=