Ethiopia
Events
- Cassiepea angers the Nereids by claiming to be more beautiful than they
- Poseidon sends a flood and a monster to punish Cassiepea’s hubris
- Perseus rescues Andromeda
- Andromeda is set out to be eaten by a monster
- Perseus turns Phineus and his co-conspirators into stone
- Perseus gives his son Perses to Cepheus to raise
- Eos brings Tithonus to Ethiopia
- Poseidon, recovering Eumolpus, takes him to Ethiopia
- Poseidon entrusts Eumolpus to Benthesicyme to bring up
- When Eumolpus grows up, Benthesicyme’s husband gives him one of their two daughters as a wife
- Eumolpus tries to rape his wife’s sister and is exiled
Group
Citations
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 12.4
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.4
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 193
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 42.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 5.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 7.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 21.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 31.7
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