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ing to other accounts he belonged properly to Thessaly; but 

 this variation is not surprising, as Herodotus* describes the 

 Dorians as dwelling under Deucalion in Phthiotis in Thessaly, 

 in later times in Dryopis, which was near Parnassus. Ari- 

 stotle, again, regarding Epirus as the original seat of the Hel- 

 lenes, refers Deucalion to that countryf. In another passage 

 of Hesiod, preserved by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, (Gaisf. 

 Poet. Grcsc. i. p. 201.) Macedonia is spoken of as deriving its 

 name from Macedo, the son of Thya the daughter of Deuca- 

 lion^:. There is therefore sufficient evidence that the name 

 ot Deucalion was in very ancient times connected with Thes- 

 saly and with the incunabula of the Hellenic nation, Hellen 

 being made his son; but there is no evidence whatever that 

 at this time the story of a deluge was connected with his 

 name. And it is in this capacity only, as a patriarch of the 

 Hellenes, that: Herodotus and Thucydides in later times make 

 mention of him. 



When we examine the account of Deucalion given by 

 Apollodorus (i. 7. 2.) we can easily detect portions of two 

 distinct, fables, which have been incongruously combined, but 

 which can never originally have been one. 



At the beginning of the 7th chapter of the first book, he 

 relates, " that Prometheus having fashioned men out of earth 

 and water, and stolen fire from Jupiter to give them, was con- 

 demned by him to be exposed to an eagle on Mount Caucasus. 

 Of Prometheus was born Deucalion, who reigned in the coun- 

 try about Phthia, and married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epi- 

 metheus and Pandora, the first woman created by the gods. 

 But when Jupiter determined to destroy the brazen race, 

 Deucalion, at the suggestion of Prometheus, built an ark 

 (Aap«£), and having put provisions on board of it, embarked 

 in it with Pyrrha; and Jupiter, sending down a great quantity 

 of rain from heaven, deluged Greece, so that all men except a 

 few were destroyed, who took refuge on the adjacent high 

 mountains." He then goes on to relate the resting of the ark 

 on Parnassus, and the regeneration of mankind by Deucalion 

 and Pyrrha throwing stones behind them; but immediately 

 after this, § 7., he resumes the genealogy of Deucalion's family 

 by natural descent, Hellen, Amphictyon, &c. That two stories 

 of different origin have been united here, is evident from the 

 circumstance that the human race having originated with 

 their creation by Prometheus, there was no time between him 

 and his son Deucalion for their passing through those succes- 

 sive stages of degeneracy by which they reached the depravity 



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