 Ogyges survived the deluge but many people perished.After his death, the devastated Attica was without kings for 189 years, until the time of Cecrops (Cecrops Diphyes).Africanus says, "But after Ogyges, on account of the great destruction caused by the flood, what is now called Attica remained without a king one hundred and eighty-nine years until the time of Cecrops.