ANDROMEDA, the name of a celebrated tragedy of Euripides, admired by the ancients above all the other compositions of that poet, but now lost.
It was the representation of this play, in a hot summer-day, that occasioned that epidemic fever, or phrenzy, for which the Abderites are often mentioned, wherein they walked about the streets, rehearsing verses, and acting parts of this piece. See ABDERA.