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In Greek mythology, Nannacus (also Annacus; ancient Greek: Νάννακος, Άννακός) was a legendary king of Phrygia before the Flood of Deucalion. His city was Iconium in modern Turkey.
Nannacus himself had predicted the Flood and had organized public prayers to avert this disaster. These prayers were accompanied by lamentations and from this came the proverbial phrase "weep like Nannacus" (ancient Greek: τα Ναννάκου κλαϋσομαι).[1][2][3] The earliest attestation of this proverb is from the third century BC.[4]
According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Nannacus lived three hundred years.[5] There was an oracle that said that when Nannacus died, all his people would perish. Indeed, shortly after the death of Nannacus (whom his subjects greatly mourned), the Deluge of Deucalion came and thus the oracle was fulfilled.
At the end of the flood, Prometheus, on the orders of Zeus, again created "images" (Greek: εἰκόνες/eikones) of people and revived them, from where the name of the place Iconium (Ἰκόνιον) arose.[1]
Also in Asia Minor, the city of Apamea (Phrygia) (Apamea Cibotus) had boasted of its connection to the Flood. According to James Frazer,
Some scholars have suggested that the patriarch Nannacus was identical to the biblical patriarch Enoch who lived before the flood for three hundred and sixty-five years and was then removed from the world in a mysterious fashion.[1]
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