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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 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 ]
Plato makes reference to great floods in several of his dialogues, including Timaeus, Critias, and Laws.In Timaeus (22) and in Critias (111–112) he describes the "great deluge of all", specifying the one survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as having been preceded by 9,000 years of history before the time of Solon, during the 10th millennium BCE.
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, son of Zeus and Iodame, daughter of Itonus. [2] He was the brother of Thebe who became the wife of Ogygus. [3] Deucalion, son of Minos and Pasiphae, and apparently succeeded his older brother Catreus as King of Crete, father of Idomeneus. [4] Deucalion, a soldier Achilles kills in the Iliad to avenge the death of Patroclus. [5]
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.
In Greek mythology, Deucalionids or Deucalionides were the descendants of Ancient Greek progenitors Deucalion and Pyrrha. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Thyia's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Pandora II , and possibly of Amphictyon , Protogeneia , Melantho ( Melanthea ) and Candybus . Like her other sisters, Thyia bore to Zeus sons namely, Magnes and Makednos (the claimed ancestor of the Macedonians ). [1]