Deucălion

, a son of Pro me the us, who married Pyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus. He reigned over part of The aly, and in his age the whole earth was overwhelmed with a deluge. The impiety of mankind had irritated Jupiter, who resolved to destroy the world, and immediately the earth exhibited a boundle scene of waters. The highest mountains were climbed up by the frightened inhabitants of the country; but this seeming place of security was soon overtopped by the rising waters, and no hope was left of escaping the universal calamity. Pro me the us advised his son to make himself a ship, and by this means he saved himself and his wife Pyrrha. The ve el was to ed about during nine succe ive days, and at last stopped on the top of mount Parna us, where Deucalion remained till the waters had subsided. Pindar and Ovid make no mention of a ve el built by the advice of Pro me the us; but, according to their relation, Deucalion saved his life by taking refuge on the top of Parna us, or, according to Hyginus, of Ætna in Sicily. As soon as the waters had retired from the surface of the earth, Deucalion and his wife went to consult the oracle of Them is, and were directed to repair the lo of mankind, by throwing behind them the bones of their grandmother. This was nothing but the stones and Pausanias, who saw it, further adds, that a yearly offering of flour and honey was thrown into it with religious ceremony. The deluge of Deucalion, so much celebrated in ancient history, is supposed to have happened 1503 years B.C. Deucalion had two sons by Pyrrha, Hellen, called by some son of Jupiter, and Amphictyon king of Attica, and also a daughter, Pro to gen i a, who became mother of Æthlius by Jupiter. Pindar , poem 9, Olympian .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , fable 8; Heroides , ♦ poem 15, li. 167 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 7 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 10 ; bk. 5 , ch. 8 .— Juvenal , satire 1, li. 81 .— Hyginus , fable 153.— Justin , bk. 2 , ch. 6 .— Diodorus , bk. 5 .— Lucian , de Deâ Syriâ .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 62 .――One of the Argonauts.――A son of Minos. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 1 .――A son of Abas. ♦ ‘45’ replaced with ‘15’