Deucalion (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Deucalion or Deukalion (/dju:keɪli:ən/; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the name of the following characters:

Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survivor of the Deucalian flood.The scholia to Homer, Odyssey 10.2 names Clymene as the commonly identified mother, along with Hesione (citing Acusilaus, FGrH 2 F 34) and possibly Pronoia. Deucalion, son of Zeus and Iodame, daughter of Itonus. He was the brother of Thebe who became the wife of Ogygus.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206. Deucalion, son of Minos and Pasiphae, and apparently succeeded his older brother Catreus as King of Crete, father of Idomeneus.Apollodorus, 3.3.1 Deucalion, a soldier killed by Achilles in the Iliad to avenge the death of Patroclus.Homer, Iliad 20.478 ff. Deucalion, another name of Asterius,Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.176 came from Pella to join the Argonauts. He was the son of HypsoValerius Flaccus, 1.367 and probably, Hyperasius. In some accounts, his father was called Hippasus.Hyginus, Fabulae 14.

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