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Cepheus

Κηφεύς

(Κηφεύς).

1. A son of Belus and husband of Cassiepeia, was king of Ethiopia and father of Andromeda. (Apollod. 2.1.4, 4.3; Hdt. 7.61; Tac. Hist. 5.2.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.