Cressida

Faithless Trojan woman

Cressida is a woman's name from Greek legend, made famous by medieval retellings and Shakespeare's *Troilus and Cressida*.

In the story, Cressida pledges faithfulness to Troilus but betrays him for the Greek warrior Diomedes.

The name has become shorthand for a faithless woman or broken romantic promises: She proved a Cressida in the end.

betrayal

faithless

Untrustworthy, lacking loyalty

inconstantProne to fluctuation
fickleErratically disloyal in affection
falseNot matching reality

treacherous · unfaithful · disloyal · perfidious · forsworn · wavering · infidelity · duplicity · fickleness · inconstancy

Shakespeare

Diomedes

Trojan War Greek hero

UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
tragicomedyGenre blending sorrow and mirth
faithlessUntrustworthy, lacking loyalty

Helen · Hector · Ajax · Achilles · Globe · folio · quarto · Elizabethan · drama · verse

mythology

Troy

Ancient Anatolian city

DiomedesTrojan War Greek hero
BoccaccioItalian prose master
TrojanOf an ancient walled city

Chaucer · medieval · legend · faithlessness · tragic · heroine · classical · antiquity · Greek · captive

moon

Uranus

Sideways-spinning outer world

satelliteOrbiting celestial body
naturalNot artificially produced
orbitingTraveling around another body

innermost · irregular · discovery · Voyager · 1986 · astronomy · celestial · Shakespearean · naming · Cordelia

name

feminine

Pertaining to women

BritishOf the United Kingdom
literaryOf written works
classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome

Cassandra · Helena · Lavinia · Ophelia · Portia · Rosalind · Bianca · Cordelia · Imogen · Juliet

Opposites

faithfulness in love

CressidaPenelope

Traditional name, Greek origin

Juliet · Griselda · faithful wife · Cordelia · Desdemona

Family

chrysalis, chrysoprase

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