Cassiope

Family: Æthiopian royal family · Role: queen and mother of Andromeda · First appears: Fable 47

Life events

• Perseus proposes marriage, and Andromeda’s parents accept, promising the kingdom as dowry.(Fable47 · 📍 Æthiopia)
  • With: Perseus Andromeda Cepheus
  • “If I were to demand her {in marriage}, I, Perseus, the son of Jove, and of her whom, in prison, Jove embraced in the impregnating {shower of} gold, Perseus, the conqueror of the Gorgon with her serpent locks, and who has dared, on waving wings, to move through the ætherial air, I should surely be preferred before all as your son-in-law. To so many recommendations I endeavor to add merit (if only the Deities favor me). I {only} stipulate that she may be mine, {if} preserved by my valor.” Her parents embrace the condition, (for who could hesitate?) and they entreat {his aid}, and promise as well, the kingdom as a dowry.”

Fable 47

• child: Andromeda “Cassiope, the mother of Andromeda, had dared to compare her own beauty with that of the Nereids.”
• with Perseus (Cassiope recognizes Perseus as her son-in-law.) “Cassiope and Cepheus, the father, rejoice, and salute him as their son-in-law, and confess that he is the support and the preserver of their house.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.