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.