3 This paper aims to provide an overview of the sources which link the story to the Palestinian port town, and to explore -by looking in some detail at the relevant texts- the multiple facets that affected the story’s different renditions. S (.)ġ Strabo, when raging in the first book of his Geography against those ancient scholars who ‘are less deserving of credence, since in addition to the incredibility of their theories they betray a tendency to confound myth and history’, 1 states that ‘there are some who transfer Ethiopia also to our Phoenicia, and who say that the adventure of Andromeda took place in Iope, though the story is surely not told in ignorance of its local setting but rather in the guise of myth.’ 2 The example accompanying Strabo’s observation deals with an interpretation of an ancient myth, namely by assuming that there was a standard version of the myth of Andromeda which was later re-interpreted in such a way that it was re-located to Iope, modern-day Jaffa which is now a suburb of Tel Aviv.
3 Throughout this paper, I stick to Iope, although the town’s name is also written differently.
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