Deucalion

Family: gods · Role: ancestor of Amphictyon in one account · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Deucalion) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Deucalion)

Deucalion was the son of Prometheus and married Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. When Zeus destroyed the men of the Bronze Age, Prometheus advised Deucalion to build a chest; he escaped the flood with Pyrrha, while nearly all other men perished. At Zeus’s bidding, Deucalion and Pyrrha threw stones that became men and women: “the stones which Deucalion threw became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women.” Zeus also sent Hermes to Deucalion and allowed him to choose what he would.

Deucalion and Pyrrha had Hellen, Amphictyon, and Protogenia, making him an ancestor of Amphictyon. In another account, Deucalion was a son of Minos; he became the father of Idomeneus, Crete, and the bastard son Molus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Zeus flooded Greece, destroying nearly all men while Deucalion and Pyrrha escaped in a chest.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 Greece)
  • With: Zeus Pyrrha
  • “And when Zeus would destroy the men of the Bronze Age, Deucalion by the advice of Prometheus constructed a chest, and having stored it with provisions he embarked in it with Pyrrha. But Zeus by pouring heavy rain from heaven flooded the greater part of Greece, so that all men were destroyed, except a few who fled to the high mountains in the neighborhood.”
• Zeus transformed stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha into men and women.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7)
  • With: Zeus Pyrrha
  • “And at the bidding of Zeus he took up stones and threw them over his head, and the stones which Deucalion threw became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women.”
• Idomeneus, Crete, and Molus were born to Deucalion.(Apollodorus, Library 3.3)
  • With: Idomeneus Crete Molus
  • “To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a bastard son Molus.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• parent: Prometheus “And Prometheus had a son Deucalion.”
• married with Pyrrha “He reigning in the regions about Phthia , married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, the first woman fashioned by the gods.”
• child: Pyrrha “And Deucalion had children by Pyrrha, first Hellen”
• child: Hellen “And Deucalion had children by Pyrrha, first Hellen”
• child: Amphictyon “and second Amphictyon”
• child: Protogenia “and third a daughter Protogenia”
• with Zeus (interaction) “And Zeus sent Hermes to him and allowed him to choose what he would”
• with Hermes (interaction) “And Zeus sent Hermes to him and allowed him to choose what he would”

Apollodorus, Library 3.1

• parent: Minos “He begat sons, to wit, Catreus, Deucalion, Glaucus, and Androgeus: and daughters, to wit, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, Phaedra;”

Apollodorus, Library 3.3

• child: Idomeneus “To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a bastard son Molus.”
• child: Crete “To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a bastard son Molus.”
• child: Molus “To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a bastard son Molus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.14

• child: Amphictyon “some say that Amphictyon was a son of Deucalion”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• parent: Idomeneus “Idomeneus, son of Deucalion”

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