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,
HMS Andromeda (F57) a result of this collision, and had to return to Devonport for repairs. In 1977, "Andromeda" took part in the Fleet Review of the Royal Navy, during the Silver Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. Between November 1977 and December 1980, "Andromeda" underwent modernisation, including the addition of Exocet and Sea Wolf missiles at Devonport dockyard. "Andromeda" took part in the Falklands War in 1982, returning to the United Kingdom from a deployment in the Western Atlantic in April 1982, before sailing for the South Atlantic as part of the 'Bristol Group', entering the Total Exclusion Zone on 25 May.