Ovid retold the Pandora-related myth using the name “Pyrrha.” In the Metamorphoses, Pyrrha is the wife of Deucalion and one of the survivors of a devastating flood, rather than the Pandora figure herself.
Greek and Roman myth cycles often overlap, and later authors adapted earlier stories instead of preserving one fixed version. Ovid’s Metamorphoses connects the flood of Deucalion and Pyrrha with the destruction of an earlier human age. After the flood, the couple repopulates the earth by throwing stones behind them.
This is an important distinction from Hesiod’s Pandora. Ovid does not simply translate Pandora’s story under another name. Pyrrha belongs to a related creation-and-survival tradition, while Pandora is the woman created by the gods in Hesiod’s account. The names are sometimes mixed up because both myths explain humanity’s changed condition.