Reading Notes: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Part A

 

Poseiden, the ark of Deucalion in the background.

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Notes on Deucalion and Pyrrha Story

• Characters
• Jupiter, Neptune (Poseiden), Deucalion, Pyrrha (Deucalion's wife),
• Story:
• Jupiter is angry at what mankind does
• floods the earth destroying it with Neptune's (Posiden) help. 
• There are two survivors: Deucalion and Pyrrha
• They worshipped the Corycian nymphs, the mountain gods, and the goddess Themis
• Jupiter saw the two survivors and seen that they worshiped the gods so he cleared the flood with Triton, the son of Neptune. 
• The world was restored
• Asked Themis for help/what to do next
• Pyrrha is told to scatter the bones of her mother
• The bones are also referred to as stones.
• They slowly turned into a marble-like statue then made into people
• This was done by the power of the gods, Deucalion's stones turned to man while Pyrrhas turned to women. 

Bibliography: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1 - 4) translated into English by Tony Kline