Deucalion and Pyrrha
- Last survivors of the flood, married to each other.
- Phocis separates Aonia from Oeta.
- Deucalion and his wife landed in Mount Parnassus in a small boat
- Triton blows the conch to signal the rivers and streams to return and clear the earth.
- Deucalion and Pyrrha were told by the goddess to throw stones behind them. These stones turned into humans as to restore the human race.
- Jupiter (bad) turned Lo into a heifer and lied to his wife (vengeance seeking) about her.
- Argus - had a hundred eyes around his head, kept watch on Lo
- After seeing herself in water, she was terrified and fled
- Mercury, Jupiter's son, is ordered to kill Argus. He uses his wand to close all of Argus' remaining eyes and kills him.
- Lo** turns back into a human. Lo - shy, innocent, afraid
- The Palace of the Sun*
- The seasons all represented as people with details relating to their respective seasons.
- *icy Winter
- Phaethon seeks his father, wanting to be of some sort of royalty. Asks a lot of his father early on
- wants to ride the chariot (dangerous)
- Phaethon-naive, childish, danger-seeking
- Regretful of his decision; fearful
- The Earth is engulfed in flames and many cities and people destroyed.
- The daughters of Clymene are turned into trees
- Cycnus turns into a bird
- A second victim of Jupiter, gives birth to a boy
- Juno turns her into a bear out of anger and humility
- She and Arcas were turned into constellations
- Gives birth to Jupiter's child
- Was consumed by the fire of her gift
- The child was ripped from the mother and sewn on to Jupiter
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| "Jupiter and Semele, by Gustave Moreau" Source: Mythology and Folklore Blog / Wikipedia |
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