Pyrrha is the daughter of Pandora and Epimetheus who survives the great flood in later Greek mythology. She is paired with Deucalion, the son of Prometheus.
In the flood story, Zeus decides to destroy the Bronze Age with a deluge. Deucalion and Pyrrha survive by taking refuge in a chest or vessel. After the waters recede, they receive instructions for repopulating the earth by throwing the “bones of the mother” behind them, interpreted as stones from Earth.
The myth connects Pyrrha to Pandora’s family but is not the same episode as the opening of Pandora’s container. The relationship appears in later mythographic traditions and genealogies rather than forming the central action of Hesiod’s original jar story.
Pyrrha’s name is also associated with the Greek word for reddish or fiery color. Her role in the flood myth makes her an important bridge between the Pandora narrative and Greek stories about the renewal of humankind.