Cassiopeia

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Cassiopeia (Κασσιόπεια), an aa Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια), is the name o several figurs in Greek meethology:

The keeng o Ethiopia Cepheus an the queen Cassiopeia thank Perseus for freein thair dauchter Andromeda, La Délivrance d'Andromède (1679) Pierre Mignard, Louvre

The Queen Cassiopeia, wife o king Cepheus o Æthiopia, wis beautifu but an aa arrogant an vain; these latter twa chairactereestics led tae her dounfaw. In some soorces she wis the dauchter o Coronus an Zeuxo.

A different Cassiopeia or Cassiepeia wis a dauchter o Arabus an the wife o King Phoenix, accordin tae Hesiod.[1]

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