Deucalin (; ) was the son of
Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as
Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. He is closely connected with the
Flood myth, according to which, the anger of
Zeus was ignited by the
hubris of the
Pelasgians. So Zeus decided to put an end to the
Bronze Age. According to this story,
Lycaon, the king of
Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who was appalled by this savage offering. Zeus unleashed a deluge, so that the rivers ran in torrents and the sea flooded the coastal plain, engulfed the foothills with spray, and washed everything clean. Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest. Like the Biblical
Noah and the Mesopotamian counterpart
Utnapishtim, he uses his device to survive the deluge with his wife,
Pyrrha.
