Pyrrha

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pyrrha)

Life events

• Zeus flooded Greece, destroying nearly all men while Deucalion and Pyrrha escaped in a chest.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 Greece)
  • With: Zeus Deucalion
  • “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 Deucalion
  • “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.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• parent: Epimetheus “married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, the first woman fashioned by the gods.”
• parent: Pandora “married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, the first woman fashioned by the gods.”
• married with Deucalion “He reigning in the regions about Phthia , married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, the first woman fashioned by the gods.”
• parent: Deucalion “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”

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