Crossword-Solution: CEPHEUS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Let them measure their strength against mine! But tell me, maiden, who you are, and what dark fate brought you here.’ And she answered, weeping— ‘I am the daughter of Cepheus, King of Iopa, and my mother is Cassiopoeia of the beautiful tresses, and they called me Andromeda, as long as life was mine.

And already a messenger had gone to Cepheus and Cassiopoeia, where they sat in sackcloth and ashes on the ground, in the innermost palace chambers, awaiting their daughter’s end.

Then Cepheus said, ‘Hero of the Hellens, stay here with me and be my son-in-law, and I will give you the half of my kingdom.’ ‘I will be your son-in-law,’ said Perseus, ‘but of your kingdom I will have none, for I long after the pleasant land of Greece, and my mother who waits for me at home.’ Then Cepheus said, ‘You must not take my daughter away at once, for she is to us like one alive from the dead.

And when they died, the ancients say, Athené took them up into the sky, with Cepheus and Cassiopoeia.

And there on starlight nights you may see them shining still; Cepheus with his kingly crown, and Cassiopoeia in her ivory chair, plaiting her star-spangled tresses, and Perseus with the Gorgon’s head, and fair Andromeda beside him, spreading her long white arms across the heaven, as she stood when chained to the stone for the monster.