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Deucalion from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum. In Greek mythology, Deucalion (/ dj uː ˈ k eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. [1] [2] He is closely connected with a flood myth in Greek mythology.
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.
In Greek mythology, Deucalion or Deukalion (/dju:keɪli:ən/; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the name of the following characters: Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survivor of the Deucalian flood. [1] Deucalion, son of Zeus and Iodame, daughter of Itonus. [2] He was the brother of Thebe who became the wife of Ogygus. [3]
Deucalion and Pyrrha were a couple in Greek mythology, the only male and female survivors of the Greek version of the flood myth, ...
A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, ... Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek ... According to Masse these indications point to the date May 10, ...
c. 1512 BC: The flood of Deucalion, according to O'Flaherty, Augustine, Eusebius, and Isidore (bishop of Seville). 1506 BC: Cecrops I, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus. 1504 BC: Egypt started to conquer Nubia and the Levant.
If you've had some cold weather recently, today's look back at history should make you shiver a little less. From Feb. 2-4, 1996, 29 years ago, a frigid arctic outbreak gripped the upper Midwest.
It combines dates for events which modern readers would consider mythic, such as the Flood of Deucalion (equivalent to 1529/28 BC) with dates we would categorize as historic. For the Greeks, the events of their distant past, such as the Trojan War (dated from 1217 to 1208 BC in the Parian inscription) and the Voyage of the Argonauts were ...