Ogygian Deluge

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The Ogygian Deluge (so called because it occurred at the time of Ogyges) is one of the three floods in Greek mythology, ending Hesiod's Silver Age and succeeded by the first Bronze Age (see Ages of Man). The other two were the flood of Deucalion and the flood of Dardanus. Plato in his Laws, Book III, estimates that this flood occurred 10,000 years before his time. Plato's estimate is close to the date given by the present day theory of the flood in the Aegean Basin, towards the end of the Miocene and also coincides with the end of the last ice age estimated approximately 10,000 years ago, when the sea-level has risen considerably. Later, Saint Jerome in his Chronicon dates it to 1757 BC. James Ussher in his Annals of the World dates it to 1796 BC, or Anno Mundi 2208 [1]. The event has been associated by some with the tsunami of the Thera eruption.