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 96 HISTORY OF GREECE. CHAPTER V. DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN. IN the Hesiodic Theogony, as well as in the " Works and Days," the legend of Prometheus and Epimetheus presents an import religious, ethical, and social, and in this sense it is carried forward by jEschylus ; but to neither of the characters is any genealogical function assigned. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women brought both of them into the stream of Grecian legend- ary lineage, representing Deukalion as the son of Prometheus and Pandora, and seemingly his wife Pyrrha as daughter of Epimetheus. 1 Deukalion is important in Grecian mythical narrative under two points of view. First, he is the person specially saved at the time of the general deluge : next, he is the father of Hell6n, the great eponym of the Hellenic race ; at least this was the more current story, though there were other statements which made Hellen the son of Zeus. The name of Deukalion is originally connected with the Lokrian towns of Kynos and Opus, and with the race of the Leleges, but he appears finally as settled in Thessaly, and ruling in the portion of that country called Phthiotis. 2 According to what seems to have been the old legendary account, it is the 1 Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1085. Other accounts of the genealogy of Deukalion are given in the Schol. ad Homer. Odyss. x. 2, on the author ity both of Hesiod and Akusilaus. 1 Hesiodic Catalog. Fragm. xi.; Gaisf. Ixx. Dilntzer "Hroi jap Ao/cpdf Ae^eyuv TjyfjoaTo haiJv, Toif pa KOTE KpoviSijf Zet)f, ii Aexrotif IK yaiijf Adaf nope The reputed lineage of Deukalion continued in Phthia down to the time of Dikaearchus, if we may judge from the old Phthiot Pherckrates, whom he introduced in one of his dialogues as a disputant, and whom he expressly announced as a descendant of Deukalion (Cicero, Tuscul. Disp. i. 10).