1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Andromeda

A daughter of Cepheus, king of beb Aethiopia, and Cassiope.

She e was was promised in marriage to Phineus when Neptune drowned the kingdom and set a sea monster to ravage the country, because Cassiope had boasted that she was fairer than Juno and the Nereides. The oracle of Jupiter Ammor. was consulted, but nothing could stop the resentment of Neptune except the exposure of Andromeda to the sea monster. She was accordingly tied to a rock, but at the moment that the monster was about to devour her, Perseus, returning from the conquest of the Gorgons, saw her, and was captivated with her beauty. He changed the monster into a rock by showing Medusa's head, and released Andromeda and married her. :

Angli or Anglii. A German people on the left bank of the Elbe, who passed over with the Saxons into Britain, which was called after them, England.

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