![]() With the latter version in mind, the point may be that Thetis fears that Beroë, like Cassiopeia, will vie with her in beauty and win. W., Hellenism in Late Antiquity ( Cambridge, 1990), 50–1 CrossRef Google Scholar. (ed.), Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium ‘Cyprus between the Orient and the Occident’ ( Nicosia, 1986), 454–70 Google Scholar Bowersock, G. A., ‘ Cassiopeia in Paphos: A Levantine Going West’, in Karageorghis, V. ![]() ![]() (eds.), Mythologie gréco-romaine, mythologies périphériques, Colloques internationaux du CNRS no. See Balty, J.-C., ‘ Une version orientale méconnue du mythe de Cassiopée’, in Kahill, L. 16), but in an eastern version of the myth, preserved in mosaics at Paphos and Apamea, Cassiopeia is the victor of the beauty contest in the Apamea mosaic, Poseidon is, in fact, the judge of the contest. ![]() The standard version of the myth in Greek literature has Poseidon punish Cassiopeia for vying with the Nereids in a beauty contest (e.g. 7 Nonnus mentions Cassiopeia as rival of the Nereids elsewhere in the Dionysiaca (25.134–7, 43.165–8). ![]()
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