Pyrrha

, a daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, who married Deucalion the son of Pro me the us, who reigned in The aly. In her age all mankind were destroyed by a deluge, and she alone, with her husband, escaped from the general destruction, by saving themselves in a boat which Deucalion had made by his father’s advice. When the waters had retired from the surface of the earth, Pyrrha, with her husband, went to the oracle of Them is, where they were directed, to repair the lo of mankind, to throw stones behind their backs. They obeyed, and the stones which Pyrrha threw were changed into women, and those of Deucalion into men. See: Deucalion . Pyrrha became mother of Amphictyon, Hellen, and Pro to gene a by Deucalion. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , li. 350 , . — Hyginus , fable 153.— A poll on i us of Rhodes , bk. 3 , li. 1085 .――A daughter of Creon king of Thebes. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 10 .――The name which Achilles bore when he disguised himself in women’s clothes, at the court of Lycomedes. Hyginus , fable 96.――A town of Eubœa. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .――A promontory of Phthiotis, on the bay of Malia.――A town of Lesbos.――A beautiful courtesan at Rome, of whom Horace was long an admirer. Horace , bk. 1 , ode 5.