Cassiopeia winning a beauty contest against the Nereids
Cassiopeia is a surprisingly multilayered figure and was (kinda?) identified with Aphrodite/Astarte in the Levant, even posing like Aphrodite Anadyomene. There are three mosaics - all found in the Levant - in which Cassiopeia wins a beauty contest (further paralleling Aphrodite), unfortunately there’s no written record of this story but I have found this very interesting analysis https://www.tumblr.com/sarafangirlart/803169729589215232/cassiopeia-in-paphos-a-levantine-going

















