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:This article is about the mythical character. Cepheus (constellation) is also one of the 88 modern constellations.Cepheus ( Greek:"gardener") was a Greek mythological character, king of Ethiopia, who was the husband of Cassiopeia and the father 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 called 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, found Andromeda, slew Kraken, set her free, and married her in spite of Phineus, 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. v. 1Disambiguation: 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).
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 her death she was placed by AthenaThis article is about the goddess Athena. For other uses see Athena (disambiguation). Aegina Athena ( Phoenician Onga also transliterated as Athene the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Romans with their Etruscan goddess Minerva amongst the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia. SophoclesSophocles ( 4961— 406 BC; Greek: Sigma;οφοκλη&sigmaf was an ancient Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Athens. He is known as the second of the three great Greek tragedians; Sophocles was 30 years y 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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