古希腊神话故事:洪水

　　The Flood towards the end of the age of bronze the human world becamevery cruel. men grew hungry ,impolite and ungodly.neither rightn or lawwas respected any longer,and the rule of hospitality was forgotten.dressedup in human form,zeus visited arcadia andthessaly,and disliked the deadlywrongs of men .he decidedto clear the earth of them all.without hesitationhe released therainy south wind and called upon the heartless poseidonto help.soon the whole world sank in a vast ocean , and the entire humanracedisappeared in the unheard of flood ,all but two poor thessalians . thesewere an old childless couple,kind and faithful and contented with life.theman was called deucalion and his wife pyrrha.son of prometheus,deucalionhad been warned beforehand by his father of the coming flood and madehimself a hugechest.when the roaring flood came the couple hid themselvesinit and floated for nine days until it touched land again on mt parnassus.

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