ABSTRACT
In the 1980s, two women writers published within a few years of each other revisionist retellings of the myth of the Trojan War and its aftermath from the perspective of Cassandra, the princess of Troy and priestess of Apollo, in order to recuperate a lost female voice from a classic text. Christa Wolf's Kassandra has been classified by Hutcheon as historiographic metafiction. Most of Bradley's works have generally been subsumed under the umbrella term fantasy. The myth of the Trojan War and its countless subplots is probably one of the most popular subjects in ancient Greek and Roman literature, and has been told by a multitude of ancient authors in various literary genres. Postmodern and feminist critics have commented on the idea of shifting the focus from the traditionally accepted centre to the neglected margins. Although Cassandra is not a protagonist or main character in the ancient sources, she features in a considerable number of texts after Homer's Iliad.
