Cassiopeia (wife of Phoenix)

For other uses, see Cassiopeia (mythology).

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]

  1. ^ Gantz, p. 208.
  2. ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 96 Most, pp. 182, 183 [= Merkelbach-West fr. 138 = Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica 2.178 (Wendel, p. 140)].
  3. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 40
  4. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.178 Greek text pp. 135–136.
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.2
  6. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.22.