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Once Troy had fallen, Cassandra was taken as a ''[[pallake]]'' (concubine) by [[King Agamemnon]] of [[Mycenae]]. While he was away at war, Agamemnon's wife, [[Clytemnestra]], had taken [[Aegisthus]] as her lover. Cassandra and [[Agamemnon]] were later killed by either [[Clytemnestra]] or [[Aegisthus]]. Various sources state that Cassandra and [[Agamemnon]] had twin boys, Teledamus and Pelops, who were murdered by [[Aegisthus]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Corinth, chapter 16, section 6|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=2:chapter=16:section=6|access-date=2021-11-28|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>

The final resting place of Cassandra is either in [[Amyclae]] or [[Mycenae]]. Statues of Cassandra exist both in [[Amyclae]] and across the [[Peloponnese]] peninsula from Mycenae to [[Leuctra]]. In [[Mycenae]], German business man and pioneer archeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] discovered in [[Grave Circle A, Mycenae|Grave Circle A]] the graves of Cassandra and Agamemnon and telegraphed back to King [[George I of Greece]]:<blockquote>''With great joy I announce to Your Majesty that I have discovered the tombs which the tradition proclaimed by Pausanias indicates to be the graves of Agamemnon, Cassandra, Eurymedon and their companions, all slain at a banquet by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthos.''</blockquote>However, it was later discovered that the graves predated the Trojan War by at least 300 years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harrington|first=Spencer P.M.|date=July–August 1999|title=Behind the Mask of Agamemnon|url=https://archive.archaeology.org/9907/etc/mask.html|journal=Archaeological Institute of America|volume=52}}</ref>