Andromeda
ancestor sky Greek single tradition · 1
Andromeda is the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia in Greek legend. She was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea‑monster and rescued by Perseus, later becoming the ancestress of the Perseidae and a constellation placed in the sky by Athena. The myth appears in early Greek literature and was later dramatized by Sophocles and Euripides.
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- 8 – 2020
- Historical notes
- The story is recorded in Ovid's Metamorphoses (1st century CE) and earlier oral tradition.
Relationships
- enemy of
- sea‑monster, Poseidon
- manifests as
- Constellation Andromeda
- child of
- Cepheus, Cassiopeia
Mentioned by
Sources
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Source passages
“ANDROMEDA, in Greek legend, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia... after her death she was placed by Athena amongst the constellations in the northern sky”
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