Andromeda – a Greek legend, daughter of the Ethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When the latter once boasted that it surpasses the beauty of Nereids, the enraged goddess appealed to Poseidon with a prayer for vengeance, and he sent a sea monster that threatened loss of subjects Cepheus. Oracle of Ammon declared that the wrath of god tame only when Kefey bring AA to sacrifice monster. Living in the country forced the king to decide on the sacrifice.
Chained to the rock, Alexander was given to the arbitrariness of the beast. In this position he saw her Perseus and, struck by her beauty, offered to kill the monster, if she agrees to marry him. The father gladly volunteered their consent, and Perseus safely made his dangerous feat, given Athena A. place between the stars. Sophocles and Euripides drew this tale of tragedy.
There is also no small feat of Perseus images on vases, in wall paintings and bas-reliefs. The same legend was the subject for the drama of Corneille, "Andromede" (Par., 1650).
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