Cassiopeia (wife of Cepheus)
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.
literature
- Karl Tümpel : Kassiepeia 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 988-995 ( digitized version ).
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Ernst Georges, Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary : 1. Cassiope
- ↑ Karl Kerényi : The mythology of the Greeks . Vol. II: The Heroes Stories . dtv, Munich 1984, p. 49. ISBN 3-423-01346-X