It is asserted by the poets that Apollo raised the walls of Troy by the music of his harp; and that a stone upon which he laid his lyre became so melodious, that whenever it was struck, it sounded like that instrument. […] In that rude age it does not appear that people set much value upon life. […] Thus it was in vain that Cassandra foretold to Agamemnon, that Clytemnestra would put him to death. […] It is said that he married her. […] The Greeks had a fable that the world had been drowned; that a good man and woman, Deucalion and Pyrrha, survived, and that their descendants peopled the earth.