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  • Deucalion's daughter, as Hesiod says: 'And she conceived and bare to

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • It is indeed most probable that these ceremonies formed a part of the Chytri; for what seems the more ancient portion of this festival pertains also to the worship of those who perished in Deucalion's flood.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • They say that I sought my wife in marriage with the help of the black art and charms drawn from the sea at the very time when they acknowledge me to have been in the midmost mountains of Gaetulia, where, I suppose, Deucalion's deluge has made it possible to find fish!

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • During every day of a very weary voyage, I have promised myself when sitting before the meagre sea victual, that presently the abstinence would be more than repaid by Deucalion's welcoming feast.

    The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

  • Now rather let my bones drink wine inside me; when they are dead, let Deucalion's deluge sweep them away.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Why, in Deucalion's time, hey presto, everything was swamped, mankind went under, and just one little ark was saved, stranding on the top of Lycoreus and preserving a remnant of human seed for the generation of greater wickedness.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Hellen, Deucalion's second son, finding Thessaly too small to give homes to all the people, went southward with a band of hardy followers, and settled in another part of the country which we call Greece, but which was then, in honor of him, called Hellas, while his people were called

    The Story of the Greeks 1894

  • Deucalion's deluge, in its later forms at any rate, is obviously coloured by Semitic tradition; but both Greek stories, in their origin, Sir James Frazer would trace to local conditions -- the one suggested by the Gorge of Tempe in Thessaly, the other explaining the existence of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.

    Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894

  • Hector, the eldest born of the twenty sons of Hecabe, nor Patroclus, nor Pyrrhus, that returned out of Troyland, nor the heroes of yet more ancient days, the Lapithae and Deucalion's sons, nor the sons of

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • Indian land-crabs (those dainty morsels whose image every epicure who has visited the Antilles still enshrines with regret in a warm corner of his heart), which have taken in adult life to walking bodily on shore, and visiting the summits of the highest mountains, like the fish of Deucalion's deluge in Horace.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

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