Description: Grecian constellation set on a vintage map of the heavens.
Size: 5"x5" with a white border for easy matting and framing.
(This print also available in 8"x8" and 12"x12" at different listing prices. Convo me for more details.)
All photographs are printed on a premium quality, acid free, archival paper. Matting and framing are not included with this item.
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The story of Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia was the queen and consort of King Cepheus. Their daughter Andromeda was very beautiful. Cassiopeia herself was a great beauty and was vain of it; she proclaimed her beauty was greater than that of the Nereids', the daughters of the sea god Poseidon. To punish Cassiopeia, he sentenced Andromeda to be tied to a rock with a sea monster awaiting her.
Perseus, returning from having slaughtered the gorgon Medusa, encountered the body of Andromeda lashed to the rock. He spoke to Cassiopeia and her husband and struck a deal with them: he would be allowed to marry Andromeda if he could kill the great sea monster before it killed their virgin daughter. Perseus defeated the monster, took Andromeda and returned.
Cassiopeia and Cepheus fulfilled their end of the bargain and began to plan the wedding for Andromeda. After the nuptials began, Phineus entered the proceedings and demanded his right to marry Andromeda.
A battle ensued in which Cepheus and Cassiopeia sided with Phineus. Outnumbered, Perseus considered that he had no choice but to slay his challengers by using the head of the recently slaughtered Medusa. Following their death both Cepheus and Cassiopeia were placed among the stars.
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