Reading Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon today, I was most touched by the portion where the clairvoyant Cassandra waxes poetic about her impending doom. She says:
Why am I then so pitiful? Why must I weep?
…I will go through with it. I too will take my fate.
I call as on the gates of death upon these gates
to pray [...]
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