In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was Pandora’s daughter and Deucalion’s wife after the great flood.
Pyrrha was the child of Pandora and Epimetheus. In the Greek flood myth, Zeus sent a devastating flood, and Deucalion and Pyrrha survived by taking refuge in a chest or ark. Their survival makes them the human pair through whom the world is repopulated.
After the flood, the couple consulted the goddess Themis. They were instructed to throw the “bones of their mother” behind them, a riddle they understood as meaning the stones of Earth, their mother. The stones thrown by Deucalion became men, while those thrown by Pyrrha became women.
This genealogy links Pandora’s story to a second origin myth. Pandora is associated with the arrival of suffering, while her daughter helps begin a renewed human population after catastrophe. The two stories are distinct but connected through the family line of Pandora, Epimetheus, and Pyrrha.