Department of Classical Studies
Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood
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On this sarcophagus c. 270 A.D., Deucalion and Pyrrha appear at the far
right, with Deucalion standing by a tree which Pyrrha is examining
(perhaps influenced by the story of Adam, Eve and the Tree of Knowledge in
the Christian tradition?). Hard at work to the left are the Cyclopes (not
those of the Odyssey, but Hesiod's gods of the forge, sons of Earth
and Heaven, who made Zeus' thunderbolts). Here they are creating a new
generation of mankind to people the earth after the flood. Note that this
scene departs from Ovid's account! |
