Andromeda 

Andromeda

I got this from a friend in an email and since I from Andromeda I thought it was interesting to read the story behind the greek myth:

The story behind the name.

Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and
Cassiopeia, king and queen of Joppa, a country on the Mediterranean
coast. Queen Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter were more
beautiful than the Nereids, the sea-nymph attendants of the sea god
Poseidon and the sea goddess Thetis. Some stories say that both Thetis
and Amphitrite, who was the wife of the sea god Poseidon (and in some
places considered an alternate sea goddess) were also Nereids. This
meant that Cassiopeia had insulted the gods with her boast. The Nereids
begged Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia. Poseidon sent flood waters
carrying a sea monster (in some versions named Cetus) to destroy the
kingdom.

An oracle told Cepheus that the only way to appease Poseidon and save
the kingdom was to sacrifice Andromeda to the monster. Andromeda was
chained to a seaside cliff to be eaten by the monster. Perseus, a son
of Zeus and a mortal mother, was on his way home from carrying out his
pledge to destroy the Medusa. He saw Andromeda in peril and instantly
fell in love with her.
Johannes Hevelius' Andromeda
from Uranographia (1690)
He offered to destroy the monster, rescue Andromeda, and save the
kingdom in return for her hand in marriage. Cepheus and Cassiopeia
agreed reluctantly (having already promised her to someone else).
Perseus killed the monster and freed the princess.

Andromeda insisted on keeping the promise made by her parents and
married Perseus. As a reward, the goddess Athena (who had been helping
Perseus to defeat the Medusa) placed an image of Andromeda in the stars.

The basic constellation is in the shape of an "A" with a star
representing Andromeda's head at the point of the "A". Some versions
are more elaborate, tracing her outspread arms chained to the cliff.