Cassiopeia Cassiopeia The constellation is named after Cassiopeia, the queen of Aethiopia . Cassiopeia was the wife of King Cepheus of Aethiopia and mother of Princess Andromeda . Cepheus and Cassiopeia were placed next to each other among the stars, along with Andromeda. She was placed in the sky as a punishment after enraging Poseidon with the boast that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids or, alternatively, that she herself was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. She was forced to wheel around the North Celestial Pole on her throne, spending half of her time clinging to it so she does not fall off, and Poseidon decreed that Andromeda should be bound to a rock as prey for the monster Cetus . Andromeda was then rescued by the hero Perseus , whom she later married. Cassiopeia in her chair, as depicted in Urania's Mirror Hyginus Cassiopeia It was Poseidon who placed Cassiopei...
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