Cassandra was killed along with Agamemnon because her prediction of their deaths was ignored. After the sack of Troy, she accompanied Agamemnon to Argolis, where his cousin Aegisthus lived. Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, his wife, Clytemnestra, had been seduced by Aegisthus. They conspired to murder Agamemnon and Cassandra, who had foreseen the plot but whose warning went unheeded.
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