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  • But now my wondering eyes saw, opposite Pyrrha (we began from this day to call her Pyrrha) the figure of Smugg.

    Frivolous Cupid 1895

  • Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?

    How Did the Little Crocodile? 2010

  • Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?

    Science 2010

  • Pyrrha, and thence, proceeding on foot, made his way, by the channel of a torrent at a place where the line of the Athenian wall could be crossed, undiscovered into Mytilenè.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • He and his wife Pyrrha, with the advice of the oracle of Themis, repeopled the earth by throwing behind them the bones of their grand-mother, — i.e., stones of the earth. —

    Religio Medici 2007

  • That Deucalion was the son of Prometheus and Pronoea, Hesiod states in the first “Catalogue”, as also that Hellen was the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • On returning to Lesbos, Paches reduced Pyrrha and Eresus, and finding Salaethus, the Lacedaemonian governor, concealed in

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • He came to Pyrrha, and on the following day to Eresus, where he heard that Mytilenè had been taken by the

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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