仙王座是依索匹亚国王克甫斯（Cepheus），他也是美女伊奥（Io）的祖先。

在希腊神话中，安德洛墨达（Andromeda）是依索匹亚国王克甫斯和王后卡西奥佩娅（Cassiopeia）的女儿，其母因不断炫耀自己的美丽而得罪了海神波塞冬之妻安菲特里忒，安菲特里忒要波塞冬替她报仇，波塞冬遂派鲸鱼座蹂躏依索匹亚，克甫斯大骇，请求神谕，神谕揭示解救的唯一方法是献上安德罗墨达。

她被她的父母用铁索锁在鲸鱼座所代表的海怪经过路上的一块巨石上，后来英雄珀耳修斯刚巧瞥见惨剧，于是立时拿出蛇发魔女美杜莎之人头，将鲸鱼座石化，珀耳修斯杀死海怪，救出了她。

Cepheus is a constellation in the northern sky. It is named after Cepheus, King of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its brightest star is Alpha Cephei with an apparent magnitude of 3.5. Delta Cephei is the prototype of an important class of star known as a Cepheid variable. RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, VV Cephei and V354 Cephei are among the largest stars known. In addition, Cepheus also has the hyperluminous quasar S5 0014+81, hosting an ultramassive black hole in its core at 40 billion solar masses, about 10,000 times more massive than the central black hole of the Milky Way, making it the most massive black hole known in the universe.