Deucalion

Family: mortals · Role: survivor of the deluge · First appears: Fable 9

Life events

• Deucalion and Pyrrha become the only survivors of the deluge.(Fable9)
  • With: Pyrrha
  • “Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only persons saved from the deluge.”
• The world is restored as the waters decrease and the land reemerges.(Fable9)
  • With: Pyrrha
  • “The world was restored; which when Deucalion beheld to be empty, and how the desolate Earth kept a profound silence”
• Themis reveals how Deucalion and Pyrrha can restore humanity by casting their great mother's bones.(Fable10)
  • With: Pyrrha Themis
  • “Depart from my temple, and cover your heads,[67] and loosen the garments girt {around you}, and throw behind your backs the bones of your great mother.”
• Deucalion interprets the oracle's bones as stones from the earth, enabling them to obey it.(Fable10)
  • With: Pyrrha
  • “The earth is the great mother; I suspect that the stones in the body of the earth are the bones meant; these we are ordered to throw behind our backs.”
• Their cast stones transform into men and women, renewing the human race.(Fable10)
  • With: Pyrrha
  • “And in a little time, by the interposition of the Gods above, the stones thrown by the hands of the man, took the shape of a man, and the female {race} was renewed by the throwing of the woman.”

Fable 9

• cousins with Pyrrha “It is in an extended sense that he styles her ‘sister,’ she being really his cousin.”
• parent: Prometheus “Because Prometheus was the father of Deucalion and Epimetheus of Pyrrha; Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”

Fable 10

• married with Pyrrha “Although she, descended from Titan,[68] is moved by this interpretation of her husband, still her hope is involved in doubt; so much do they both distrust the advice of heaven; but what harm will it do to try?”
• parent: Prometheus “Upon that, the son of Prometheus soothes the daughter of Epimetheus with {these} gentle words, and says, “Either is my discernment fallacious, or the oracles are just, and advise no sacrilege.”
• with Themis (interaction) “‘If the Deities, prevailed upon by just prayers, are to be mollified, if the wrath of the Gods is to be averted; tell us, O Themis, by what art the loss of our race is to be repaired, and give thy assistance, O most gentle {Goddess} to our ruined fortunes.’ The Goddess was moved, and gave this response:”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.