Cepheus
Family: Arcadia · Role: son of Lycurgus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Cepheus)
Cepheus is of Arcadia and the son of Lycurgus; Ancaeus is named as his sibling. He is also described as one of the two sons of Aleus and Neaera, with Auge as their daughter, and Phineus is identified as his brother.
At Ethiopia, Cepheus was king and husband of Cassiepea, and Andromeda was his daughter. When Perseus saw Andromeda, he promised Cepheus that he would slay the sea monster in exchange for her as his wife; after killing it and releasing her, Perses was left with Cepheus, and Sterope is named as Cepheus’s daughter.
Relationship record
Life events
- Perseus slew the sea monster and released Andromeda.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 Ethiopia)
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
- parent: Lycurgus “Ancaeus and Cepheus, sons of Lycurgus”
- siblings with Ancaeus “Ancaeus and Cepheus, sons of Lycurgus”
Apollodorus, Library 2.4
- child: Andromeda “Being come to Ethiopia , of which Cepheus was king, he found the king's daughter Andromeda”
- married with Cassiepea “For Cassiepea, the wife of Cepheus”
- siblings with Phineus “Phineus, who was a brother of Cepheus”
- ward: Perses “whom he left behind with Cepheus”
- with Andromeda (interaction) “if he would give him the rescued damsel to wife.”
Apollodorus, Library 2.7
- child: Sterope (daughter of Cepheus) (parent->child) “gave it to Sterope, daughter of Cepheus”
Apollodorus, Library 3.9
- parent: Aleus “And Aleus had a daughter Auge and two sons, Cepheus and Lycurgus, by Neaera, daughter of Pereus.”
- parent: Neaera “And Aleus had a daughter Auge and two sons, Cepheus and Lycurgus, by Neaera, daughter of Pereus.”
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