Her Perseus linger and leave her tó extremes? -
Pillowy air he treads a time and hangs
His thoughts on her, forsaken that she seems,
   All while her patience, morselled into pangs,
Mounts; then to alight disarming, no one dreams,
With Gorgon's gear and barebill / thongs and fangs.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Cassiope bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, daughters of Poseidon. For revenge, Poseidon sent a sea monster to ravage their kingdom. To save their lands her parents decided that Andromeda had to be sacrificed to the monster so they chained her to a rock on the shore.

Meanwhile, Perseus was flying around on Pegasus and saw Andromeda chained to the rock. He fell in love with her, freed her from the rock, and then slew the sea monster.

They were married and had six sons and a daughter. Upon her death she was placed in the sky as the constellation Andromeda.

The Cast

Kevin Sorbo as Captain Dylan Hunt
Keith Hamilton Cobb as Tyr Anasazi
Lisa Ryder as Beka Valentine
Lexa Doig as Andromeda
Laura Bertram as Trance Gemini
Gordon Michael Woolvett as Harper
Brent Stait as Rev Bem

The Aliens

Nietzscheans
These Aliens are genetically engineered, have clawes on the backside of their arms and are the enemies of the Commonwealth. Tyr Anasazi is a Nietzschean.

Nightsiders
They are furry, have bad vision, but good ears. The look like orangutans.

Magog
Also furry, but much more odd looking than the Nighsiders. They have pointy ears, weird triangular noses and claws. They can also spit acid which is one of their modes of self-defense. They seem to have some type of Buddhist philosophy going on. Rev Bem is a Magog and probably one of the last seeing as the Magog Solar System was destroyed.

Personally, this show really needs better scripts. It's boring and cheesy. Why do I watch this show? Lexa Doig. A dumb reason, but Sci-Fi chicks just rock.

Ανδρομεδη

The daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiopia who claimed to be more beautiful that all the Nereids put together. In jealousy the Nereids asked Poseidon to avenge this insult and to humour them he sent a monster to lay waste the country of Cepheus. When consulted by the king, the oracle of Ammon had predicted that Ethiopia would be freed from this scourge if Cassiopia's daughter were to be abandoned as a victim in expiation. The inhabitants of the country forced Cepheus to agree to this sacrifice and Andromeda was bound to a rock. Here Perseus, on his way back from his expedition against the Gorgon, saw her, fell in love with her and promised Cepheus to free her if she could become his wife. Cepheus agreed and Perseus killed the dragon and married Andromeda. But Phineus, a brother of Cepheus who had been betrothed to his niece Andromeda, plotted against Perseus, who realized what was happening and turned the Gorgon's head towards them, turning them to stone. When Perseus left Ethiopia he took Andromeda first to Argos and later to Tiryns, where they had several sons and a daughter (Table 31).

Conon offers what might be called the rationalist explanation of the legend. According to him Cepheus ruled over the country later to be called Phoenicia (but then known as Joppa from the name of the town on its coast). His kingdom stretched from the Mediterranean to Arabia and the Red Sea. Cepheus had a very beautiful daughter called Andromeda, who was wooed by Phoenix, who gave his name to Phoenicia, and his uncle Phineus, the brother of Cepheus. After a great deal of beating about the bush Cepheus decided to give his daughter's hand to Phoenix but, unwilling to give the impression that he was refusing his brother, pretended that she had been abducted. She was taken to a small island where she was in the habit of sacrificing to Aphrodite, and Phoenix carried her off on a boat called the Whale. But Andromeda had no idea that this was merely a device to deceive her uncle; she cried aloud and shouted for help. At that very moment Perseus, son of Danae, happened to be passing by. He saw the girl being abducted, took one look at her and fell in love with her. He leapt forward, upset the boat, left the sailors 'turned to stone' with astonishment and carried off Andromeda, whom he married, and thereafter reigned peacefully in Argos.

{E2 DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY}

Table of Sources:
- Apollod. Bibl. 2, 4, 3
- Ovid, Met. 4, 665ff.
- Hyg. Fab. 64; Astron. 2, 11
- Tzetzes on Lyc. Alex. 836
- Conon Narr. 40
- Sophocles, Andromeda (lost tragedy, Jebb-Pearson I p. 76)
- Euripides, Andremeda (lost tragedy, Nauck TGF, edn 2, pp. 392ff.)
- Pseudo-Eratosth. Catast. 17

I
how that oblivion, took to the
woods in that frantic solace
found something like history trapped in
the mouths of the birds;
snowbound, in the hours of expectation,
in an empty fireplace she opened the
entrance, that welcoming naked
beneath the antiques and were strewn
over the air; took the moon and the
atmosphere was my own, flawed and
aboriginal. what was sacred soon I thought
too uncovered, soon came from our tongues,
calloused and unapologetic. Took the
children to the countryside where the
sun was caught in our trap, with and
withdrawn, that stale penitence in our throats. Before
the before took the blankets and
whatever valuable was left

II
That clarity was it disappointing, looking
between a noun and a premise, there
standing something mythical and alive, or however
life really wasn't. reason came the
water from a broken faucet,
treasonous, and bereft. The way something
valuable had broken, then in reverie, a hundred
times, each less promising than the last; save
that it would continue. How emptily they
pronounced your name, naked among the
columns, and how you didn't bother
to correct them

III
the Greyhounds swarmed in the tunnel, the
cathedrals emptying in the mountain's light; movement
and humbled, took apart the same buildings
and there Andromeda was, huddled next to the laundry-chute,
she closed her eyes and complained of her back and
the burdens of travel, the other aisle of apathy and
distance. Straining to see the river through the smog, then
the world was colored with rose-water; "how the
stadium light dissolved in the stratosphere, and
the earth had seemed drawn to itself." Andromeda we moved
like the clothesline's burden in the autumn
tempests and everything how
bittersweet we knew

An*drom"e*da (#), n. [L., fr. Gr. , the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.]

1. Astron.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

2. bot.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

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