![]() Just as he was thought to be the framer of the famous older Cretan constitution, so he was also considered a founder of the naval supremacy of Crete before the times of Troy Hesiod calls him the "mightiest king of all mortals," who rules with the sceptre of Zeus over most of the neighbouring peoples. Residing at Gnossus as the "familiar friend of Zeus," he had a "nine-yearly" rule over the flourishing island, an expression which later generations explained as signifying periods of nine years at the end of which he went into a cave sacred to Zeus, in order to hold converse with his father, and to receive the laws for his island. He is the son of Zeus and of Europa in Homer, brother of Rhadamanthys, father of Deucalion and Ariadne, and grandfather of Idomeneus. During the reign of Nyctimus the deluge connected with the name of Deucalion covered the land as a punishment for the impiety of Lycaon and his sons.Ī mythical king of Crete, the centre of the oldest legends of that island. The god however threw the table over and killed Lycaon and his sons with lightning, with the exception of Nyctimus, the youngest, whom Gaea saved by firmly holding the right hand of Zeus. When Zeus came to them in the guise of a beggar in order to put their contempt of the gods to the test, they followed the advice of Maenalus, the eldest, and set before him the entrails of a boy which had been mixed with the sacrifice. Another legend relates that he had fifty impious sons. the town Lycosura, the oldest that Helios looked upon, and to have sacrificed a child to Zeus on the altar he had raised on the highest peak of the mountain, on account of which he was changed into a wolf ( see LYCAeA). He is said to have founded on Mount Lycaeum. Mythical king of Arcadia, son of Pelasgus and Me1iboea (daughter of Oceanus) or Cyllene), and father of Callisto. He endeavoured to impose upon Zeus by dividing it in such a way as cleverly to conceal the half which consisted of flesh and the edible vitals under the skin of the animal, and to lay thereon the worst part, the stomach, while he heaped the bones together and covered them with fat. When the gods, after their conquest of the Titans, were negotiating with mankind about the honour to be paid them, Prometheus was charged with the duty of dividing a victim offered in sacrifice to the gods. The most ancient account of him, as given by Hesiod [ Theog. ![]() Son of the Titan Iapetus and the Ocean-nymph Clymene, brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus, father of Deucalion ( q.v.). His tomb, however, was shown by the Cretans at Cnosus, where he was worshipped as a hero. He afterwards withdrew to Co1ophon in Asia, where he is said to have been buried. His son came out to meet him, and was accordingly sacrificed a plague thereupon broke out, he was banished by the Cretans, and betook himself to Calabria. ![]() According to a later story, he was caught in a storm on his way home, and vowed to Poseidon that, if he returned in safety, he would sacrifice to the god whatever he should first meet on his landing. He is described as one of those who safely returned to his native land. Being one of Helen's suitors, he and Meriones, the son of his half brother, went with eighty ships to Troy, where he appears in Homer as among the bravest of heroes. The son of Deucalion of Crete, and grandson of Minos. In punishment for this Poseidon made the rivers of Argos suffer from a scarcity of water. After the flood of Deucalion, he is said to have led the inhabitants down from the mountains to the plains, and when Poseidon and Hera contended for the possession of the land, he decided in favour of the latter. The most ancient king of Argos, properly the god of the river of the same name, son of Oceanus and Tethys, and father of Phoroneus and Io. That of Deucalion was said to be visible at Athens in the ancient temple of the Olympian Zeus, which he was supposed to have built. ![]() With this new race Deucalion founded a kingdom in Locris, where the grave of Pyrrha was shown. They understood the priestess to refer to stones, which they accordingly threw behind them and the stones of Deucalion turned into men, those of Pyrrha into women. Inquiring of the oracle of Themis at Delphi how the human race could be renewed, be received answer that Pyrrha and he should veil their heads, and throw behind them the bones of their mother. ![]() After nine days be landed on Mount Parnassus and sacrificed to Zeus Phyxios (who sends help by flight). Zeus having resolved to destroy the degenerate race of mankind by a great flood, Deucalion, by the advice of his father, built a wooden chest, in which he rescued only himself and his wife from the general destruction. In Greek mythology, the son of Prometheus and Clymene, husband of Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus, monarch of Phthia in Thessaly. Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in / ![]()
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