Andromeda (play) also prophesied that the descendants of Perseus and Andromeda would become the rulers of Mycenae. Little is known of treatments of the Andromeda myth prior to Euripides. However, Sophocles wrote a play entitled "Andromeda", which covered the same story and was believed to have been performed around 450 BC. Sophocles' "Andromeda" is now lost except for a few fragments. Euripides treated earlier aspects of the Perseus myth in his earlier plays "Danae" (between 455 and 425 BC), which covered Perseus' birth, and "Dictys" (431 BC), which covered his defeat of Medusa. Information about "Andromeda" is largely based on later sources,
Andromeda Gardens Indies. The University of the West Indies (UWI), has responsibility for Research activities at Andromeda. At the centre of the upper garden is a majestic native banyan. When Queen Ingrid of Denmark visited the garden in 1971, she was served refreshments in a recently built gazebo overlooking the sea. There is a classroom, cafeteria and gift shop. In 1991, the palm garden contained over 60 different species of palm. Iris Bannochie founded the garden in 1954 on land owned by her family since 1740, and showed plants from Andromeda with the Barbados Horticultural Society many times at the RHS Chelsea