Cassiopeia (mythology)

Cassiopeia (Greek Κασσιόπεια, latin Cassiopeia ) or Kassiepeia is a figure from Greek mythology. She was the wife of King Cepheus aithiopischen and mother of Andromeda; than their parents are called Arabos and Thronia.

Because Cassiopeia had claimed that she was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymphs of the sea, they incurred the wrath of the sea god Poseidon to be. He sent floods over the land and the sea monster Keto, which - as it announced the oracle - her daughter Andromeda had to be suspended; the girl was saved at the last moment of Perseus. Cassiopeia, like Andromeda and keto - as whale - in addition to Cepheus and Perseus a part of the royal family of heaven, where she appears as a constellation Cassiopeia sitting on a chair.