Cassiopeia (wife of Cepheus)

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Cassiopeia is crowned winner of the beauty contest with the Nereids by Krisis, House of Aion, Paphos (Cyprus); 4th century AD

Kassiopeia ( Greek  Κασσιόπεια , Latin Cassiope ) or Kassiepeia is a figure in Greek mythology . She was the wife of the Ethiopian king Cepheus and mother of Andromeda ; Arabos and Thronia are named as their parents .

By claiming that Cassiopeia was more beautiful than the Nereids , the nymphs of the sea, she drew the wrath of the sea god Poseidon . He sent floods over the land and sent the sea monster Keto , to which - as the oracle announced - her daughter Andromeda had to be exposed; however, the girl was saved by Perseus at the last moment . Cassiopeia, like Andromeda and Keto - as a whale - alongside Cepheus and Perseus is part of the royal family of heaven, where she appears as the constellation Cassiopeia sitting on a chair.

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Individual evidence

  1. Karl Ernst Georges, Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary : 1. Cassiope
  2. Karl Kerényi : The mythology of the Greeks . Vol. II: The Heroes Stories . dtv, Munich 1984, p. 49. ISBN 3-423-01346-X