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:Cassiopeia is a northern constellation representing the legendary queen of Ethiopia. See Cassiopeia (constellation).Cassiopeia or Casseipeia (" cassia juice") was a Greek mythological queen of Ethiopia, who was the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda.
Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a sea-monster, Kraken, which destroyed man and beast. The oracle of Ammon having announced that no relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, she was fastened to a rock on the shore.
Perseus, returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa, found Andromeda, slew the monster, set her free, and married her in spite of PhineusIn Greek mythology, Phineus was a nobleman who was betrothed to Andromeda. She was to be sacrificed to a sea monster but was rescued by Perseus, who married her and then turned Phineus to stone at the wedding party, using the head of Medusa., to whom she had before been promised. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head ( OvidFor other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with, Metam.Disambiguation: This article is about the poem Metamorphoses written by the poet Ovid. The Metamorphoses written by Lucius Apuleius is generally known in English as The Golden Ass. See Antoninus Liberalis for his prose mythological work called Metamorphos v. 1).
Andromeda followed her husband to TirynsTiryns is a Mycenaean site in the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece. Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years. It reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC. Its most notable features were its palace, its cyclopean tunnels in ArgosArgos ( Greek: , rgos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. The region of Argos was called the Argolid. It was a major stronghold of Mycenaean times, but the pre-Greek name of its acropoli, and became the ancestress of the family of the PerseidaeIn Greek mythology, the Perseidae were the sons of Perseus and Andromeda. They were Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon. through Perseus' and Andromeda's son, PersesSon of Andromeda and Perseus, ancestor of the Persians according to Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the son of Helios and father of Hecate. In Greek mythology, a titan, son of Krios and Eurybia. Wed to the titan Asteria. They had one child noted in m.
After Cassiopeia's death, she was placed by Poseidon amongst the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus. (Some say that she was chained to her throne and condemned to circle the North Star, sometimes hanging upside down in a very undignified position, as a warning.) Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.
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