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The Queen Cassiopeia, wife of King Cepheus of the mythological Phoenician realm of Ethiopia, was beautiful but also arrogant and vain; these latter two characteristics led to her ...
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Cassiopeia can refer to: Cassiopeia (mythology) (or Casseipeia), a queen of Ethiopia in Greek mythology. See also Boast of Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia (constellation), a northern ...
The Mythology of the Constellations: Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia The Queen. Cassiopeia was the beautiful wife of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and the mother of Andromeda. She is most famous in connection with the myth of her daughter ...

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Cassiopeia (mythology), in Greek mythology, the wife of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. When Cassiopeia boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids, these water nymphs complained to Poseidon, the god of the sea, who sent a sea monster to ravage the land. Poseidon demanded that Cassiopeia's daughter Andromeda be punished for her mother's vanity by being sacrificed to the monster, but the girl was rescued by the hero Perseus. According to tradition, at her death Cassiopeia was changed into the constellation that bears her name.