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Andromeda and Perseus
Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.
Giorgio Vasari, Perseus and Andromeda, 1570
Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone.
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, 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.
6th-century BCE Ancient Corinth | Corinthian vase depicting Andromeda, Perseus and Cetus.
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 ).
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.
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.
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.
It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.
Joachim Wtewael Perseus and Andromeda, 1616, Louvre, the composition displaying a Vanité of bones and seashells in the foreground and an elaborate academic nude with a palette borrowing from the forefront for Andromeda's cheeks.
Then, according to certain versions of the myth, Athena tamed him and gave him to Perseus, who flew to Ethiopia to help Andromeda.
Perseus married Andromeda and had many sons but in the course of time went to war with Argos and was slain by Megapenthes.
* Medusa, a daughter of Sthenelus ( son of Andromeda and Perseus ) and Nicippe
* Piero di Cosimo ( Perseus Freeing Andromeda )
In " the first half of 1905 " the Steins acquired Cézanne's Portrait of Mme Cézanne and Delacroix's Perseus and Andromeda.
Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.
:* Perses ( son of Andromeda and Perseus )

Andromeda and fall
Wolfe resigned as head writer of Andromeda in the fall of 2001, when he allegedly refused to reduce the show's complex plots and ensemble cast to a focus on the heroics of the main character.

Andromeda and love
On the Sci-Fi Channel, she played an intergalactic librarian in Andromeda and a love interest for Teal ' c in Stargate SG-1.

Andromeda and after
The LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy ( M31 ), our own Milky Way Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy ( M33 ).
According to Martinson, he dictated the initial cycle as in a fever after a troubling dream, affected by the Cold War and the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolution ; in another version, the first 29 cantos were said to be inspired by an astronomic observation of Andromeda Galaxy.
Later, after Perseus killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda, the oracle's prophecy came true.
* Laurel Gand ( Andromeda ) – Laurel Gand was the post-Crisis / Glorithverse replacement for the pre-Crisis Supergirl in the Legion of Super-Heroes after the latter was removed from the continuity following The Man of Steel reboot of Superman.
She portrayed the title role in the Canadian-American television series Andromeda which premiered on October 2, 2000, and concluded on May 13, 2005, after 5 seasons that included 110 episodes.
Lexa Doig dated and then married actor Michael Shanks on August 2, 2003 after the two met and worked together on the sets of Andromeda where the latter was guest star in the episodes " Star Crossed " in 2001 and " Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath " in 2003.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Andromeda, after the Greek heroine Andromeda.
Andromeda, originally devised to bring younger viewers to the aging show, disappeared without explanation after this single episode and was never referred to again.
* Symphony No. 4 in F after Ovid ’ s “ Metamorphoses ” (“ The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus ”)
* Several episodes of the TV series Andromeda, depicting a universe in chaos following a great war, are named after phrases from this poem (" Its Hour Come Round At Last ", " In The Widening Gyre " and " Pitiless As The Sun ").
He starred in the television mini-series The Andromeda Strain ( 2008 ) and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama Trust Me, which was cancelled after one season.
Andromeda was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson, former president of the Alpine Club of Canada, after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus.
Soon after production ended, lead actress Nicole de Boer joined the cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and lead actor Gordon Michael Woolvett joined the cast of Andromeda.
She gained a following as Detective Tracy Vetter on the final season of the science fiction drama Forever Knight in 1995-1996, and was cast on the syndicated science-fiction series Andromeda in 2000 ; the series ended in 2005 after 110 episodes.
* In the season 2 finale of Andromeda, Captain Dylan Hunt ( played by Kevin Sorbo ) executes an extra-dimensional alien with the technique after hand to hand combat.
The Pax Magellanic was later destroyed by the crew after trying to destroy Andromeda.

Andromeda and saves
Perseus saves Andromeda in this painting by Edward Burne-Jones
Perseus saves the Princess Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda in this painting by Edward Burne-Jones.

Andromeda and her
Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.
He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus.
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos.
The Andromeda lost and the Arkology was destroyed, but Trance still managed to cripple the Worldship with her powers.
When Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids, this invoked the wrath of Poseidon who sent the sea monster Cetus to attack Æthiopia.
They had Andromeda chained to a rock near the ocean so that Cetus could devour her.
Perseus found Andromeda chained to the rock and learned of her plight.
During her leisure hours she occupied herself with observing the sky with a focal length Newtonian telescope and by this means detected a number of astronomical objects during the years 1783 – 87, including most notably an independent discovery of M110 ( NGC 205 ), the second companion of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Perseus was the Greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa, and claimed Andromeda, having rescued her from a sea monster sent by Poseidon in retribution for Queen Cassiopeia declaring that her daughter, Andromeda, was more beautiful than the Nereids.
Andromeda (" queen of men ") followed her husband to Tiryns in Argos, and became the ancestress of the family of the Perseidae who ruled at Tiryns through her son with Perseus, Perses.
The opening episodes of the show relate that Andromeda and her captain, Dylan Hunt ( played by Kevin Sorbo ) were frozen in the event horizon of a black hole for 300 years before being rescued by the crew of the Eureka Maru in CY 10087 ( approx 5167 CE ).
Within the fictional universe of the series, the starship Andromeda is shown to be somewhat unusual as it is clearly implied that the controlling AI has an emotional attachment to her Captain Dylan Hunt.

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