The Cassandra trope
Chances are, that even if you don’t know the whole Greek story, you will have heard of Cassandra. A princess who was cursed by a God, she is doomed to foresee the truth but never to be believed. She foretold the fall of her home – the city of Troy. She even foretold her capture [...]
The Fall of Old Bearded Men
The word ‘mentor’ does not appear in the English language until 1750, but the archetypal character had been around for millennia before that. I’m going to try to whizz through a brief history of the mentor character, from his Greek origins to his present day incarnations.