In Greek mythology, who was Pandora’s daughter according to later tradition?

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In later Greek tradition, Pandora’s daughter was Pyrrha.

Pyrrha is best known as the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and the wife of Deucalion. She becomes central to the Greek flood myth, in which Zeus sends a devastating flood and Deucalion and Pyrrha survive by taking refuge in a chest or ark-like vessel.

After the flood, the pair consult the goddess Themis about restoring humanity. They interpret her instruction to throw the “bones of their mother” behind them as a reference to stones from the earth. The stones thrown by Deucalion become men, while those thrown by Pyrrha become women.

This genealogy belongs to later mythographic tradition and is not the main focus of Hesiod’s account of Pandora. That distinction matters because Pandora’s earliest surviving narrative concentrates on her creation, marriage to Epimetheus, and the release of suffering. Pyrrha connects Pandora’s story to a separate Greek account of human renewal after a flood.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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