Local deluges.
Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1011
- GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIVThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus II 81 n. 2
Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Deluge. · view the constellation · filed as A1011
The Greek witness makes the local deluge a god's tantrum with surveying attached. Beaten in the arbitration for Attica — "the country was adjudged to Athena" — "Poseidon in hot anger flooded the Thriasian plain and laid Attica under the sea" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV]. Frazer's notes multiply the pattern on the same page: losing Argos to Hera, the god "took his revenge, as in Attica, by flooding the country" [ibid., editor's note]; and the geography is pinned down — "The Thriasian plain is the plain in which Kleusis stands", OCR wart and all [ibid., editor's note]. Even the world-flood turns local here: the Attic king-list uses it as a date — in Cranaus's reign "the flood in the age of Deucalion is said to have taken place" [ibid.] — and Frazer's note has the Parian Chronicle confine that flood to Parnassus country, Deucalion fleeing "for safety to king Cranaus at Athens" [ibid., editor's note]. The world-scale telling itself is served two books earlier, where Zeus "flooded the greater part of Greece" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VII]. Scale is the whole difference between the two addresses: A1010's flood erases a race; A1011's punishes a district and enters the annals as a date.
Witnesses: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV · The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VII
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
Filed under Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section.