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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Andromeda''' was a [[Greeks|Greek]] mythological figure who was chained to a rock to be eaten by a sea monster and was saved by [[Perseus]], whom she later married.<br />
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In [[Greek mythology]], Andromeda was the daughter of [[Cepheus, King of Aethiopia|Cepheus]] and [[Cassiopeia]], king and queen of the Phoenician kingdom Ethiopia. The etymology of the name is "to think of a man", from ανδρος (''andros'') "of a man" combined with μηδομαι (''mēdomai'') "to think, to be mindful of".<br />
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[[Cassiopeia]], having boasted herself equal in beauty to the [[Nereids]], drew down the vengeance of [[Poseidon]], who sent an inundation on the land and a sea-monster, which destroyed man and beast. The [[oracle]] of Ammon announced that no relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, so she was fastened to a rock on the shore.<br />
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[[Perseus]], returning from having slain the [[Gorgon]], found Andromeda, slew the monster, set her free, and married her in spite of [[Phineus]], to whom she had before been promised. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head (Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' v. 1).<br />
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Andromeda followed her husband to [[Tiryns]] in [[Argos]], and they became the ancestors of the family of the ''Perseidae'' through Perseus' and Andromeda's son, [[Perses]]. Perseus and Andromeda had six sons ([[Perseides]]): [[Perses]], [[Alcaeus]], [[Heleus]], [[Mestor]], [[Sthenelus]], and [[Electryon]], and one daughter, [[Gorgophone]]. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from [[Electryon]] down to [[Eurystheus]], after whom [[Atreus]] got the kingdom, and include the great hero [[Heracles]]. According to this mythology, Perses is the ancestor of the [[Persians]].<br />
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After her death she was placed by [[Athena]] amongst the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia. [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]] (and in more modern times Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies. The tale is represented in numerous ancient works of art.<br />
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At the port city of Jaffa, Israel, an outcropping of rocks near the harbour is reputed by local legend to have been the place from which Andromeda was rescued by Perseus.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
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*[[Apollodorus]], ''[[Bibliotheke]]'' II, iv, 3-5<br />
*Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' IV, 668-764.<br />
*Edith Hamilton, ''Mythology'', Part Three, 204-207<br />
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