In Greek mythology, Pyrrha survives Zeus’s great flood with Deucalion. The pair escape in a chest or ark and later become the ancestors of a renewed human population in the Greek flood tradition.
Pyrrha is especially important because she connects the flood story with Pandora’s family. She is commonly described as the daughter of Pandora and Epimetheus, while Deucalion is the son of Prometheus. Their marriage brings together the two branches of the mythic family associated with Zeus’s punishment and human survival.
After the flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha consult an oracle and interpret the instruction to throw their “mother’s bones” behind them as a command to cast stones from Mother Earth. The stones become people. This episode is separate from the opening of Pandora’s jar, although modern retellings often place the stories close together.