Abstract
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was said to be a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her older brother was Hector, hero of the Greco-Trojan War. The older and most common versions state that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her with the gift to see the future. According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went back on her word and refused the god. The enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, so he added to it the curse that though she would see the future, nobody would believe her prophecies. Far be it from the self-perceptions of your editors that we may think to have communed with the god Apollo, but a re-reading of our editorial of June 20201 does lead us to think, sadly, that we may have been prophetic. We then...
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