Deucalion (mythology)
Set of mythological Greek characters
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, another name of Asterius ,[6] came from Pella to join the Argonauts . He was the son of Hypso [7] and probably, Hyperasius .[6] In some accounts, his father was called Hippasus .[8]
Notes
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron , 1206 (Gk text)
^ Apollodorus , 3.3.1
^ Homer, Iliad 20.478 ff.
^ a b Apollonius of Rhodes , 1.176
^ Valerius Flaccus , 1.367
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 14 .
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus , Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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