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.[1]
• Deucalion, son of Zeus and Iodame, daughter of Itonus.[2] He was the brother of Thebe who became the wife of Ogygus.[3]
• Deucalion, son of Minos and Pasiphae, and apparently succeeded his older brother Catreus as King of Crete, father of Idomeneus.[4]
• Deucalion, a soldier Achilles kills in the Iliad to avenge the death of Patroclus.[5]
• Deucalion, came from Pella, a city in Macedonia, to join the Argonauts.[6]

For other uses, see Deucalion (disambiguation).

References

1. The scholia to Odyssey 10.2 names Clymene as the commonly identified mother, along with Hesione (citing Acusilaus, FGrH 2 F 34) and possibly Pronoia.
2. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
3. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, Book 3.3.1 with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
5. Homer, Iliad 20.478ff
6. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.367. Translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.