Barbaria, Eulalia and Messaline? Wait, the third one is a redhead. It must be ERIN.
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Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art
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RedOrc
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Britomart is a female knight in Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queen" who rescues many distressed damsels ( and also dis-dressed damsels!)
She also rescues her lover Artegall and several other knights from slavery to the evil Amazon Radigund, in spite of all their pleas not to be rescued..
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ducon007
Consul
Thanks a lot!
I was wondering if Cassiopeia might have been a variant from Latin or something but was too afraid to askThank you very much for this little mythology lesson!
By the way, for me, the constellation of the big "W" is Cassiopeia, not Cassandra...
I wonder if she foresaw this too?Easy to locate using the Big Dipper.
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Yep. She didn't even get a star, much less a whole constellation.
Probably one of them was @Eulalia who helped distract Cetus while Perseus rescued the real Andromeda?
@Eulalia and Cetus now live happily in Loch Ness…
ducon007
Consul
Cassiopeia is the mother of Andromeda (by the way, who gave her name to the best-known galaxy...).
Cassandra is the daughter of Priam, King of Troy.
She receives from Apollo the gift of telling the future in exchange for the promise to offer herself to him. Refusing the god, he decreed that her predictions would never be believed, not even by his family.
I never tire of this picture of our nearest spiral galaxy neighbour, who’s incidentally on her way for a visit…
Thanks I knew all that, I meant when reading @mysterybadger ’s claim about Cassandra having a constellation named after her, then describing what could only be Cassiopeia, instead of questioning that, I simply assumed “Cassiopeia” must mean “Cassandra” but from a different language.
ducon007
Consul
No, definitely two different unrelated people.
Oh look. An all you can eat buffet.
So I did what i should have done in the first place, googling the right answer and oh wow, Cassiopeia fits so well into this discussion because she’s related to Andromeda (and probably our @Eulalia )
From Wiki:
Mythological figure
Cassiopeia was the queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus. She was arrogant and vain, and boasted that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than the Nereids, the 50 sea nymph attendants of Thetis and Poseidon. Poseidon punished Cassiopeia by sending a flood and a sea monster to destroy her kingdom
Shows what he knows. Ethiopia is landlocked. Must have been one hell of a flood.
Depends if they’d recently Re conquered Eritrea?
To be fair, They went in for some big ones in ancient timesMust have been one hell of a flood.
ducon007
Consul
Perhaps the tsunami caused by the explosion of the Santorini volcano (ca 1600 BC), or even better, the one caused by the fall of the Chicxulub meteorite (-65 million years ago)!Shows what he knows. Ethiopia is landlocked. Must have been one hell of a flood.
Close to where I am. A kind of Andromeda, but of a dour Scots Presbyterian sort.
Rupert_137
Governor
The sons and daughters of the Trojan King Priam all had a tragic fate - during the war or afterward.
The fate of Cassandra is considered particularly tragic because she foresaw all the misfortunes but could not change them.
After the Greeks' victory, Cassandra was raped in the Temple of Athena, where she had sought refuge. Agamemnon claimed Cassandra as his slave and abducted her to Mycenae, where his jealous wife had her murdered.
A Cassandra theme from Pompeii:
Cassandra's sister Polyxena fared no better. She was executed (sacrificed) by the Greeks to atone for the death of the hero Achilles who was fatally injured by her brother Paris. A cruel collective punishment and victor's justice - as if Achilles had not deserved his death in every way.
The famous sarcophagus of Polyxena from the 6th century BC. Below (back side) we see to the right of the center Polyxena's murder or sacrifice:
Naraku
Draconarius
"Aethiopia" was the Greek name for the region south of Egypt; taken from their name of the people as Aithiopean and meaning the people of Nubia, Kush, Punt...basically modern Sudan. The Greeks had almost no direct knowledge of this part of the world and relied on second and third hand accounts.Shows what he knows. Ethiopia is landlocked. Must have been one hell of a flood.
During the Middle Ages, the name came to be applied to the region known today as Ethiopia. Ethiopia had a coast along the Red Sea until Eritrea seceded in 1993.