Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cepheus.
The gallery
Perseus and Andromeda
Jacob Matham (after Hendrick Goltzius), 1597
Matham's engraving after Goltzius stages the Ethiopian crisis Cepheus could not avert: Andromeda bound for the monster after Cassiopeia's boast — the king as the helpless father at the edge of the rescue.
Andromeda Mosaic (Zeugma)
Unknown (Roman mosaicist), 2nd–3rd century AD
A floor mosaic from Zeugma (Gaziantep Museum) returns to the Ethiopian royal myth Cepheus rules: Andromeda's ordeal as provincial Roman floor spectacle — the king's household story carried east along the Euphrates.
On screen
In play
Cepheus (constellation)
The Ethiopian king was placed among the circumpolar stars beside Cassiopeia and Andromeda — a faint northern constellation that still names the father who exposed his daughter to the sea.
Cepheus (father of Andromeda)
King of Aethiopia and father of Andromeda — the mortal ruler whose wife's boast and whose daughter's chains define the Perseus cycle.