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Deucalion and Pyrrha were a couple in Greek mythology, the only male and female survivors of the Greek version of the flood myth, ...
Of Deucalion's birth, the Argonautica [7] (from the 3rd century BC) stated: . There [in Achaea, i.e. Greece] is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha, after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus. An older version of the story told by Hellanicus has Deucalion's "ark" landing on Mount Othrys in Thessaly. Another account has him landing on a peak, probably Phouka, in Argolis, later called Nemea. When the rains ceased, he sacrificed to ...
16th-century woodcut by Virgil Solis, illustrating lines 347–415 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Greek mythology, Pyrrha (/ ˈ p ɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: Πύῤῥα, romanized: Pýrrha) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion of whom she had three sons, Hellen, Amphictyon, Orestheus; and three daughters Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia.
Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525) by Domenico Beccafumi. Deucalion and Pyhrra is an oil painting on panel of c. 1520–1525 by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi. It is held now in the Museo Horne, in Florence.
Deucalion and Pyrrha were supposed to have dwelt in the neighbourhood of Opus, and the town was said to have been founded by Opus, son of Locrus and Protogeneia. [1] It was the native city of Patroclus, and was one of the Locrian towns subject to Ajax, son of Oileus. [3] [1]
Pandora's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Thyia. [4] Her other possible siblings were Protogeneia, [5] Pronoos, Orestheus, Marathonius, [6] Amphictyon, [7] Melantho [8] and Candybus. [9] According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Pandora was the mother of Graecus by the god Zeus.
In Greek mythology, Deucalionids or Deucalionides were the descendants of Ancient Greek progenitors Deucalion and Pyrrha. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.