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| Jan Swart van Groningen Cassandra grieving over the fall of Troy ca. 1550-55 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Cassandra (center) rending her clothes in despair as Hector departs (study for an unexecuted painting) 1861 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelis Bloemaert after Abraham van Diepenbeeck Cassandra prophesying the fall of Troy and mocked by a crowd ca. 1635-38 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Roman Empire Ajax seizing Cassandra at the Palladion, with Priam lamenting before AD 79 fresco Casa del Menandro, Pompeii |
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| Roman Empire Ajax seizing Cassandra at the Palladion 1st-2nd century AD onyx cameo British Museum |
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| Attic Greece Neck Amphora - Ajax seizing Cassandra at the Palladion ca. 450 BC painted terracotta Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
"A number of ancient Greek texts recount that, when the Greeks sacked Troy, Cassandra, the most beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam, took refuge at the statue of Athena [an ancient cult figure known as the Palladion], but Ajax tore her away and raped her, thus committing sacrilege against Athena. The legendary actions of heroes were the basis for numerous rituals that took place in Greece. In Locris, which was Ajax's native region, the citizens expiated his crime for a thousand years by sending two virgins every year to serve in the temple of Athena at Troy."
– curator's notes at the Metropolitan Museum
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| Attic Greece Calyx Krater - Cassandra menaced by Ajax ca. 470-460 BC painted terracotta Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Attic Greece Pelike - Cassandra at the Altar menaced by Ajax ca. 460 BC painted terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| attributed to Lorenzo Gennari Capture of Cassandra and Death of Coroebus ca. 1615-30 oil on canvas National Trust, Charlecote Park, Warwickshire |
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| Anthony van Dyck Cassandra ravished from the Temple ca. 1614-27 drawing British Museum |
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| Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Greeks dragging Cassandra from the Temple 1663 etching British Museum |
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| Raphael Ajax seizing Cassandra at the Palladion ca. 1509-1511 drawing British Museum |
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| Solomon Joseph Solomon Ajax and Cassandra 1886 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
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| Jérôme-Martin Langlois Cassandra imploring Athena for revenge against Ajax before 1838 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Sforza di Marcantonio Plate with the Death of Cassandra 1551 tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) Philadelphia Museum of Art |