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DEUCALION

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 116 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DEUCALION , in
Greek
 
legend
 , son of Prometheus, king of Phthia in Thessaly,
husband
  of Pyrrha, and father of Hellen, the mythical ancestor of the Hellenic race. When Zeus had resolved to destroy an mankind by a flood, Deucalion constructed a boat or ark, in which, after drifting nine days and nights, he landed on
Mount
 
Parnassus
  (according to others, Othrys, Aetna or Athos) with his wife. Having offered sacrifice and inquired how to renew the human race, they were ordered to cast behind them the " bones of the
great
 
mother
 ," that is, the stones from the hill-side. The stones thrown by Deucalion became men, those thrown by Pyrrha,
women
 .
See Apollodorus i. 7, 2;
Ovid
 , Metam. i. 243-415; Apollonius Rhodius iii. 1085 ff.; H. Usener, Die Sintflutsagen (1899).


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