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Andromeda Rock

In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment.[1] Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.

 

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men",[2] from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".

 

As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage), giving rise to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.

 

Contents [hide]

1Mythology

2Constellations

3Perseus and Andromeda in art

3.1Film

3.2Novels

4Depictions in art

5See also

6Sources

7References

8External links

Mythology[edit]

 

A small Roman fresco from Pompeii

In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia.

 

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.

 

Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa. After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible (for he was wearing Hades's helm), and killed the sea monster. He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.[3]

 

Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

 

At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]

 

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

 

Constellations[edit]

 

Andromeda (1869) Edward Poynter

Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.

 

Four constellations are associated with the myth. Viewing the fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations are rendered as:

 

A huge man wearing a crown, upside down with respect to the ecliptic (the constellation Cepheus)

A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down (the constellation Cassiopeia)

A maiden, chained up, facing or turning away from the ecliptic (the constellation Andromeda), next to Pegasus

A whale just under the ecliptic (the constellation Cetus)

Other constellations related to the story are:

 

Perseus

The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her

The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded

Perseus and Andromeda in art[edit]

 

Cesari: Perseus saving Andromeda, 1596, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times, Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art, including Greek vases. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.

 

Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, which typically show the moment of rescue, with Andromeda usually still chained, and often naked or nearly so. Examples include: one of Titian's poesies (Wallace Collection), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael (Louvre), Veronese (Rennes), many versions by Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau. From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest. Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.

 

If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,

And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet

Fetter’d, in spite of pained loveliness;

Let us find out, if we must be constrain’d,

Sandals more interwoven and complete

To fit the naked foot of poesy;

Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress

Of every chord, and see what may be gain’d

By ear industrious, and attention meet:

Misers of sound and syllable, no less

Than Midas of his coinage, let us be

Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;

So, if we may not let the Muse be free,

She will be bound with garlands of her own.

 

“”

"If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d"

John Keats (1795-1821)[6]

The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino composed an hour-long operatic drama called Perseo e Andromeda in 2000.

 

Film[edit]

In 1973, an animated film called Perseus (20 minutes) was made in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet animated film collection called Legends and mуths of Ancient Greece.[7][8]

 

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group). Thetis was indeed a Nereid and also the future mother of Achilles. Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the film, the monster is called a kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.

 

Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version. Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos. The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy. In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.

 

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus. In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.

 

Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of "Prometheus Academy" which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.

 

Novels[edit]

In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, there are a few references to Andromeda. The most obvious is that the series' lead villains have a cruise ship which serves as their headquarters and is called The Princess Andromeda.

 

Andromeda is the main character in Harry Turtledove's short story "Miss Manners' Guide to Greek Missology", published in Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series of humorous feminist fantasy collections, and reprinted in other anthologies afterwards. It is a satire filled with role reversals, puns, and deliberate anachronisms relating to pop culture.

 

Andromeda is Anna's full name in Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which was turned into a movie in 2010. In the novel there are several references to mythology, as Anna's dad Brian is an astronomer in his free time.

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Plage des hôtels, Gosier, Guadeloupe

c. 1901, classical revival style

Mais uma foto (de muitas que ainda tenho que editar cof) da Helle com a wig nova dela!

In places far from the equator, as Canada is, the winter sun never rises very high from the horizon but it produces this vibrant blue sky. Spring, autumn and winter can produce amazing images when the sun is out and hangs low.

 

The old building, completed in 1864, is the former Don Gaol (Jail). It was converted into offices in 2013. That impressive modern building is Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, a long-term care facility.

 

1 Bridgepoint Drive and 550 Gerrard Street East, Toronto.

The statues were found hanging around in Oxford museum but are having more fun here!

Hwapo Beach. Suncheon, South Korea.

Fujifilm Velvia 100

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Iron Fist, Spider-man and the Blue Beetle get some space training classic style.

had to capture the fun outfit from last night's Drama Libre ♥

Birkenhead Town Hall viewed from across the River Mersey, completed in 1887 in the classical style the clock tower is just over 200ft (61m) high.

Vicenza, olympic theatre, april 2014

La Madeleine Church, Paris

Craigengillan, Ayreshire

A number of houses in Berkeley feature columns at the facade, a style popular in the 19-teens when many were built near the UC Berkeley campus. Originally, many housed professors and their families, but later were turned into apartments for off-campus student housing (privately owned and operated, as now).

Designer: Kyohei Katsuta

Folded: October 2022

Paper: 24cm * 24cm Washi Deluxe

Final length of the model: 13cm

Time to fold: 1 hour

 

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China, Shanghai, a westernized city with approx. 24 million residents, count 2013, one of the biggest cities in the world. The classical Chinese buildings are all in the old part of Puxi on the west side of the Huangpu River opposite of Pudong, which is thus in a sense the “Chinatown” with antic markets, tea houses, food stalls, restaurants & many interesting spots to visit, like the French Concession established in the middle of the 19th century, a charming area.

 

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Youghal, Cork

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Fuji Instax 210 camera

ISO800 film

Construction of the current Parliament

Buildings started in 1893 and they were

officially opened on February 10, 1898.

The architect, Francis Rattenbury, was just

25 years old when he won the competition

to design the new buildings.

The style of the Parliament Buildings has been

described as ‘free classical’ and ‘Romanesque.’

Raw materials from throughout British

Columbia were used for the construction

of the buildings, including andesite from

Haddington Island for the 150 meter

(500-foot) long façade and granite from

Nelson Island for the foundation and front

stairs. The roof is capped by 33 copper domes

of different sizes. On top of the central dome,

stands a gold plated, two-metre tall statue of

Captain George Vancouver. Each night, the

buildings are illuminated by more than 3500

energy-efficient light bulbs.

In addition to the magnificent Parliament

Buildings, the Legislative precinct is home to

numerous landmarks of historical importance

and many beautiful fountains, trees, and

gardens.

 

Western Canada, Section 6: Vancouver Island

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This classic beauty, for me a latter-day Helen of Troy, was seen on the street in Chania, the second city of Crete, Greece.

Model & Stylist : Bily

Location : Opera House

Classic style costumes mixed with modern very creative and eye-catching

Tele 70-200 F2.8

Ha Noi - Viet Nam 2011

Yungang Grottoes, Datong, China.

 

The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Five Caves created by Tan Yao, with their strict unity of layout and design, constitute a classical masterpiece of the first peak of Chinese Buddhist art. The Yungang cave art represents the successful fusion of Buddhist religious symbolic art from south and central Asia with Chinese cultural traditions, starting in the 5th century AD under imperial auspices.

 

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