For the last challenge we proposed this engraving, done illustrated by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses. Both characters are Deucalion and Pyrrha. He, son of Prometheus and Oceanid Clymene, was the ancestor of all Greeks while her daughter Epimethean and Pandora.
His myth recounts that, when Zeus, seeing that the human race had reached the limits of depravity, he decided to destroy mankind, sending a deluge, Prometheus advised his son to build a large ark in which sail with his wife during the nine-day punishment. The only place that was not flooded was Mount Parnassus, where he arrived the ark. Once had stopped raining, the two men offered sacrifices to Zeus and came to the oracle of Themis-future oracle of Apollo at Delphi, to consult how they should proceed to find more people in the world. The answer was that they should shed behind her mother's bones. After thinking about it, concluded that it should be Mother Earth (Gaia), whose bones would be the stones. Thus, throwing the songs behind them, they arose men and women who shaped the new humanity.
Both the engraving of the top, as this work of Rubens, an oil on wood 26.4 x 41.7 cm, for the original sketch for the decoration of the Torre de la Parada, and now in the Museo del Prado, reflected the most characteristic moment of myth: when, stones thrown, they born men and women who populate the earth. In the case of the engraving, also seen in the background prior consultation of the oracle.
Sources: FALCON MARTINEZ, Consantino (et alt.) Dictionary of classical mythology , 1, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1995, pp. 177-178; http://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/deucalion-y-pirra/
Images: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalión; http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/1267071/Mitologia-Griega---Historia_-leyendas_-pinturas_-esculturas.html
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