Devoir de Philosophie

Cassiopeia

Publié le 17/01/2022

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Greek Wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia; mother of Andromeda and of Atymnius, by Zeus. Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the sea Nymphs, or Nereids, daughters of the god Poseidon. This aroused the wrath of Poseidon, who sent a monster to punish Ethiopia. An Oracle declared that only the sacrifice of Cassiopeia's daughter, Andromeda, would appease the monster and save the country. Cassiopeia, along with Cepheus and Andromeda, became constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere.