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Andromeda's mother angered the gods with her boast that Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids, the attendants of the god of the sea, Poseidon. To appease the offended Poseidon, who threatened to destroy their entire kingdom, Andromeda's parents sacrificed their daughter by leaving her where she would be devoured by his monster.
Accordingly, Andromeda was chained to a rock at the sea's edge and left to be killed by the sea monster. Perseus arrived and instead killed Cetus, saved Andromeda and married her. [5] Poseidon thought Cassiopeia should not escape punishment, so he placed her in the heavens chained to a throne in a position that referenced Andromeda's ordeal.
Cepheus and Cassiopeia allow Perseus to become Andromeda's husband after he uses Medusa's head to turn Phineus and his men to stone for plotting against him. [7] According to Hyginus, the betrothed of Andromeda is named Agenor. [8] After spending a year or so at the court of his father-in-law, Perseus finally sets off for Seriphos with his wife.
George Chapman's poem in heroic couplets Andromeda liberata, Or the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda, [24] was written for the 1614 wedding of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard. The wedding, which led to a "train of intrigue and murder and executions, was the scandal of the age."
One grouping involves the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, both them and Andromeda's parents all appearing next to each other in the sky, which is today's nomination. Interestingly, an inability to properly put clothes on one's upper body runs in Andromeda's family. Articles in which this image appears
Alexa Davalos as Andromeda A princess of Argos who is to be sacrificed to the Kraken after her mother foolishly boasts about Andromeda's beauty. Jason Flemyng as King Acrisius/Calibos A mortal king who led a revolt against the gods. As punishment, Zeus impregnated Acrisius' wife, Queen Danae, and turned Acrisius into the deformed creature Calibos.
Kelly Ripa has finally figured out how to get all her children in on their family holiday card.. On the Friday, Dec. 13 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the longtime couple revealed the ...
Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda and thus brother of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Cynurus, Gorgophone and Autochthe.He is most commonly married to Anaxo, daughter of his brother Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon, [3] but was instead married to Eurydice, daughter of Pelops, in some versions of the myth.