Description of Greece

Pausanias

Pausanias makes Ogyges (Ogygus) first king of the Ectenes in the Theban land and links his name to the epithet Ogygian — and to a deluge remembered before Deucalion's.

Ogyges

Boeotian and Attic first king of the Ogygian flood — the deluge that drowned Copais and left Attica kingless until Cecrops in local memory.

Ogygian deluge

The earlier Greek flood named for Ogyges — set before Deucalion and Pyrrha in the layered flood chronologies of Boeotia and Attica.

Thebes, Greece

Poets call Thebes Ogygian from Ogyges — the primeval king's name fossilized in the city's oldest byname.