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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.
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]
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.
Cuneiform tablet with the Atra-Hasis epic in the British Museum. Uta-napishtim or Utnapishtim (Akkadian: 𒌓𒍣, "he has found life") was a legendary king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq, who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, one of several similar narratives, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat.
This temple was constructed by Deucalion when he arrived in Athens. [ 1 ] At the end of the ceremony, it was believed that the souls returned to the Underworld , and thus the people would shout: Thyraze Kares, ouket' Anthesteria ("Out, Kares, the Anthesteria is over").
Deucalion was the eldest son of Minos either by Pasiphae or Crete and thus grandson of Zeus. He was the brother of Acacallis , Ariadne , Androgeus , Xenodice , Phaedra , Glaucus and Catreus . By Cleopatra , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Deucalion fathered Idomeneus who succeeded him and led the kingdom into the Trojan War .