Ogyges

Mark Isaak

Flood Stories from Around the World

An earlier flood was reported to have occurred in the time of Ogyges, founder and king of Thebes.

Ignatius Donnelly

Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends

And the same succession of destructions is referred to in the Greek legends, where a deluge of Ogyges--"the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica, a quite mythical person, lost in the night of ages"--preceded that of Deucalion.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge Legends of Other Nations

The first was connected with the name of Ogyges, the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica--a quite mythical personage, lost in the night of ages, his very name seemingly derived from one signifying deluge in Aryan idioms, in Sanscrit Angha.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge Legends (I)

Ogyges and Deucalion: Ogyges escapes a flood that covers the earth.