Cassiopeia biography

Figure in Greek mythology

For other uses, see Cassiopeia (disambiguation).

Cassiopeia (;^[1]Ancient Greek: Κασσιόπεια Kassiópeia,Modern Greek: ΚασσιόπηKassiópē) or Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus of Ethiopia.

She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that led to her downfall.

Family

Her origins are obscure. Nonnus calls her a nymph,^[2] while according to Stephanus, she was called Iope, the daughter of Aeolus, from whom the town of Joppa (now the Jaffa neighborhood in Tel Aviv) derived its name.^[3]

Mythology

Cassiopeia boasted that she (or her daughter Andromeda), was more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus.

This brought the wrath of Poseidon, ruling god of the sea, upon the kingdom of Aethiopia.^[4]

Accounts differ as to whether Poseidon decided to flood the whole c