Deucalion
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Deucalion, the Greek flood-hero, from whom the Phthiotic line and the great deluge are dated.
And from the leadership of Moses and Inachus to the flood of Deucalion — the second deluge, I mean — and to the conflagration of Phaethon, which fall in the time of Crotopus, forty generations are counted;
And by another two generations younger than these are the Phthiotic matters, those from Deucalion.
Under Crotopus was the conflagration in the time of Phaethon and the deluge in the time of Deucalion.
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological flood survivor, ancestor figure in Greek myth.
in the two others he brings on a certain aged Pherecrates of Phthia, whom he says was sprung from Deucalion, arguing that there is no soul at all, and that this name is wholly empty, and that it is in vain that we call things "living" and "animate," since there is no soul or breath within man or within beast;
Orations
King in Greek myth who survived the great flood.
And such one storm the Greeks relate, through their youth and weak memory, and they say Deucalion, who was then reigning over them, sufficed before the complete destruction.