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244 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter D
   By the direction of Zeus, thereupon, he and his wife flung stones behind them, and those which Deucalion cast became men, and those thrown by Pyrrha women; from which circumstance the Greeks derived the name for “people” ( (20.72)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *l, entry la_o/s1
   (in the story of Niobe); and so explains the word from the legend of Deucalion, , cf. (17.73)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *e, entry eu)nh/
   ; of Pyrrha and Deucalion, (14.78)

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1 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 5, scene 1, line 57
   Aeneas What, would the Gods have me, Deucalion like,
   Flote up and downe where ere the billowes drive?
   (2.60)

10 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, commline 92
   Compare Winter's Tale, ‘Far than Deucalion off,’ IV, iv, 442; that is, more remote in relationship than Deucalion. (11.03)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, commline 92
   Deucalion W. A. Wright: Deucalion was the Greek Noah. (6.07)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Deucalion
   Deucalion, the Noah of the Greeks: . (4.60)

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3 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, commline 92
   Compare Winter's Tale, ‘Far than Deucalion off,’ IV, iv, 442; that is, more remote in relationship than Deucalion. (8.51)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, commline 92
   Deucalion W. A. Wright: Deucalion was the Greek Noah. (6.07)

3. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, line 87
   Men. It is not woorth the
   wagging of your Beards, and your Beards deserue not so
   honourable a graue, as to stusse a Botchers Cushion, or to
   be intomb'd in an Asses Packe-saddle; yet you must bee
   saying, Martius is proud: who in a cheape estimation, is
   worth all your predecessors, since Deucalion, though per-
   aduenture some of the best of 'em were hereditarie hang-
   men. (2.34)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia. By Thomas Jefferson page 28
   The lake, or that sea, may thus have bees so raised as to overflow the low lands adjacent to it, as those of Egypt and Armenia, which, according to a tradition of the Egyptians and Hebrews, were overflowed about 2300 years before the Christian æra; those of Attica, said to have been overflowed in the time of Ogyges, about five hundred years later; and those of Thessaly, in the time of Deucalion, still 300 years posterior. (4.60)

2. William Byrd, A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd page 316
   We walked from one end of the island to the other, being about half a mile in length, and found the soil very good, and too high for any flood, less than that of Deucalion, to do the least damage. (3.11)