Cassiopeia (wife of Phoenix) explained

In Greek mythology, Cassiopeia (Κασσιόπεια), also Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια), was the daughter of Arabus (Arabius) and by King Phoenix of Phoenicia,[1] the mother of Phineus[2] and Carme,[3] although the latter is more often said to be a daughter of Eubuleus, a Cretan. Other sources claim that she was the mother of the hero Atymnius by her own husband[4] or by the god Zeus.[5] Anchinos was also called the son of Cassiopeia and Zeus who seduced her by changing himself into the shape of her husband Phoenix.[6]

Notes

  1. Gantz, p. 208.
  2. [Hesiod]
  3. [Antoninus Liberalis]
  4. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.178 Greek text pp. 135–136.
  5. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
  6. [Clementine literature|Pseudo-Clement]

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