A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Cassiopeia
CASSIOPEIA.
Daughter of Arabus, and wife of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia, to whom she bore Andromeda. She dared to compare her daughter's beauty to that of the Nereides, who besought Neptune for vengeance. The god complied by laying waste the dominions of Cepheus by a deluge and a sea-monster. In astronomy, Cassiopeia is a conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.