Pyrrha and Deucalion, the sole survivors of Zeus's great flood, repopulated the earth by casting stones over their shoulders. Their son Hellen became the eponymous ancestor of all the Hellenic peoples.
Prometheus fathered Deucalion, connecting the Titan who stole fire to the man who survived the flood. Prometheus's foreknowledge saved his son when Zeus destroyed the rest of humanity.
After the floodwaters receded, Pyrrha and Deucalion's chest came to rest near Delphi on Mount Parnassus. It was at the oracle there that they received the command to cast stones and repopulate the earth.
Through her daughter Pyrrha and son-in-law Deucalion, Pandora became the ancestress of the renewed human race. The woman who brought suffering also produced the lineage that survived the flood.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Zeus cited Lycaon's impiety as evidence of humanity's corruption when arguing before the gods for sending the great flood that only Deucalion and Pyrrha survived.
Notus brought the rains of the great deluge that drowned the world, from which only Deucalion and Pyrrha survived by floating to Mount Parnassus in a chest.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Poseidon struck the earth with his trident to release the flood waters at Zeus's command, then later ordered the seas to withdraw, ending the deluge that Deucalion and Pyrrha survived.
After the flood waters receded, Deucalion and Pyrrha consulted the oracle of Themis at Delphi. The goddess instructed them to cast the bones of their great mother behind them, which they interpreted as stones of the earth, and from these stones a new race of humans arose.
After Zeus sent the great flood, Poseidon commanded Triton to blow his conch shell. At the sound, the seas and rivers retreated to their bounds, ending the deluge that had nearly destroyed humanity and allowing Deucalion and Pyrrha to begin repopulating the earth.
Zeus sent the great flood to destroy the wicked Bronze Age of humanity. Deucalion alone was spared for his piety, having been warned by his father Prometheus to build a chest in which he and Pyrrha floated for nine days.
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