“Which just makes this a BAD, BAD, BAD description of the people Babbin is trying to describe.”
Yes, you are right, of course. But I think a lot of folks forget that part about Cassandra, and just invoke her as a voice of doom & gloom.
BTW, it was Apollo. My bad. :P
Cassandra's tale - http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/fittoncassandra/intro.html