person
Cassiepeia
also: Cassiopeia
Wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, whose boast of beauty against the Nereids brought the Sea-Monster upon her land; catasterized as Cassiepeia, condemned to set head-downward in punishment.
Reading notes
- Aratea (Translation of Aratus' Phaenomena) §Cassiepeia here will be Cassiepeia
Cassiepeia (Cassiopeia), queen and mother of Andromeda, whose boast of beauty against the Nereids brought disaster on her land; in punishment her constellation is set so that it wheels head-downward.