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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.
Pyrrha, wife of Deucalion. [1] Pyrrha, a Theban princess as the younger daughter of King Creon [2] probably by his wife Eurydice [3] or Henioche. [4] Besides her older sister Megara, Pyrrha has three brothers with the names: Menoeceus , Lycomedes and Haemon.
Young man from Babylon who is the boyfriend of Thisbe whom he is not allowed to marry. IV: 55-163 [209] Pyreneus: A tyrant who chases the muses. V: 274 [210] Pyrrha: Daughter of Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus) and wife of her cousin Deucalion. I: 319-395 [211] Pythagoras: Ionian philosopher and mathematician from Samos. He is described ...
According to a scholion on Plato's Symposium citing Hellanicus (fl. late fifth century BC), Hellen "was born to Deukalion and Pyrrha, or according to some, to Zeus and Pyrrha", and was the father, by "Othreis", of Dorus, Xuthus, Aeolus, and in addition a daughter, named Xenopatra. [13]
The last words of the ode, potenti ... maris deo ' to the god who has power over the sea ' are found in the manuscripts and in the ancient commentator Porphyrio; nonetheless, Nisbet and Hubbard in their commentary (1970), following a conjecture of Zielinski (1901), [4] suggest that the original reading may have been potenti ... maris deae ' to the goddess who has power over the sea ', i.e. Venus.
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes was the usual moment shown in art, here by Gérard de Lairesse. Rather than allow her son Achilles to die at Troy as prophesied, the nymph Thetis sent him to live at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros, disguised as another daughter of the king or as a lady-in-waiting, under the name Pyrrha "the red-haired", Issa, or Kerkysera.
Virgil Solis – Myrrha and Cinyras. Published in 8 A.D. the Metamorphoses of Ovid has become one of the most influential poems by writers in Latin. [16] [17] The Metamorphoses show that Ovid was more interested in questioning how laws interfered with people's lives than writing epic tales like Virgil's Aeneid or Homer's Odyssey. [16]
In his Chronography the chronicler Malalas described Neoptolemus as "of good stature, good chest, thin, white, good nose, ruddy hair, wooly hair, light-eyed, big-eyed, blond eyebrows, blond beginnings of a beard, round-faced, precipitate, daring, agile, a fierce fighter". [4]