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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 ...
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.
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.
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]
Deucalion and Pyrrha were a couple in Greek mythology, the only male and female survivors of the Greek version of the flood myth, who repopulated Earth by throwing stones over their shoulders. In art [ edit ]
After Odysseus arrived at Lycomedes's palace and exposed Achilles as a young man, the hero decided to join the Trojan War, along with his therápon Patroclus, leaving behind his wife Deidamia. [6] [7] Years later, Deidamia tried to persuade their son, Neoptolemus, not to join his father in the same war.