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,
The Andromeda Nebula The Andromeda Nebula The Andromeda Nebula () is a 1967 Soviet Science fiction film starring Sergei Stolyarov and directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. The film was originally intended to be the first episode of a series of films, alternatively titled as "The Andromeda Nebula: Episode I. Prisoners of the Iron Star", but the remaining parts were never made due to Stolyarov's death. It is based upon the "Andromeda Nebula" novel by Ivan Yefremov and follows the story of a group of humans on the spaceship "Tantra" who are tasked with investigating the home planet of an