In Greek mythology, Deucalion or Deukalion (/dju:keɪli:ən/; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the name of the following characters:
- Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survivor of the Deucalian flood.[1]
- Deucalion, son of Zeus and Iodame, daughter of Itonus.[2] He was the brother of Thebe who became the wife of Ogygus.[3]
- Deucalion, son of Minos and Pasiphae, and apparently succeeded his older brother Catreus as King of Crete, father of Idomeneus.[4]
- Deucalion, a soldier Achilles kills in the Iliad to avenge the death of Patroclus.[5]
- Deucalion, another name of Asterius,[6] came from Pella to join the Argonauts. He was the son of Hypso[7] and probably, Hyperasius.[6] In some accounts, his father was called Hippasus.[8]
- ^ The scholia to Homer, Odyssey 10.2 names Clymene as the commonly identified mother, along with Hesione (citing Acusilaus, FGrH 2 F 34) and possibly Pronoia.
- ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 1206 (Gk text)
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.3.1
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.478 ff.
- ^ a b Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.176
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 1.367
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14.