Oresteia

Angela & Uncle Jerry cite the Oresteia (the cycle of plays about Orestes by Aeschylus) as one of the key classical texts in which Cassandra appears. Uncle Jerry discusses how Cassandra is taken by Agamemnon as a concubine and then killed by Clytemnestra, events dramatized in the Oresteia, connecting these to the song's themes of feminine marginalization and the ignored prophet.