In Greek mythology, what was the name of Pandora’s daughter who survived the great flood?

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In Greek mythology, Pandora’s daughter who survived the great flood was Pyrrha.

Pyrrha is the daughter of Pandora and Epimetheus. She marries Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, and the couple survives a catastrophic flood sent by Zeus. After the waters recede, an oracle instructs them to throw the “bones of their mother” behind them; they understand this as stones from Mother Earth, and those stones become new humans.

Pyrrha’s story belongs to a separate but connected Greek flood tradition. Pandora is not the survivor herself, and she is not the mother of all humanity in every version of Greek mythology. Instead, the myth places Pyrrha and Deucalion at the beginning of a renewed human population after the flood.

The names can be confusing because Prometheus and Epimetheus are brothers, making Deucalion the son of Pandora’s brother-in-law. Pyrrha and Deucalion therefore connect the Pandora story to Greek accounts of creation, catastrophe, and human renewal.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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