Cepheus

Also known as: king Cepheus · Family: Æthiopian royal family · Role: king and father 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 Cassiope
- “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.”

child: Andromeda “Cepheus, the son of Phœnix, was the father of Andromeda.”
with Perseus (Cepheus recognizes Perseus as his 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.”
parent: Phœnix “Cepheus, the son of Phœnix, was the father of Andromeda.”

siblings with Phineus “Cepheus cries out, “What art thou doing? What fancy, my brother, impels thee, in thy madness, to this crime?”
with Perseus (Perseus identifies Cepheus as his father-in-law.) “Moreover, I will give thee a monument to last forever, and in the house of my father-in-law thou shalt always be seen,”
with Perseus (father-in-law and son-in-law) “Some there are, who say that Cepheus ought to die with his son-in-law”

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