Macareus (son of Aeolus)
Macar (/ˈmeɪkər/; Greek: Μάκαρ, Makar) or Macareus (/məˈkæriəs, -ˈkɑːrjuːs/; Μακαρεύς, Makareus means "happy"[1]) was, in Greek mythology, the son of Aeolus, though sources disagree as to which bearer of this name was his father: it could either be Aeolus the lord of the winds,[2] or Aeolus the king of Tyrrhenia.[3][4] His mother was, at least in the latter case, Amphithea.
Mythology
Macareus and his sister Canace fell in love with each other and had a child together. Canace was ordered to kill herself and the baby exposed by Aeolus after he had discovered this, and Macareus took his own life.[3][5][6]
Macareus, son of Aeolus, is also given as the father of Amphissa or Issa, who was seduced by Apollo in disguise of a shepherd.[7][8] Ancient sources do not clarify whether she was the child of Macareus by Canace, or a different child by another unknown consort. In Ovid's account the child of Canace apparently doesn't survive.
Notes
- Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 43 s.v. The Sons of Hellen
- Ovid, Heroids, 11. 6 - 16
- Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 28
- Canace, but not Macareus, was included on the list of children of Aeolus the son of Hellen in Hesiod, Catalogues of Women frg. 10(a); Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 7. 3
- Ovid, Heroides, 11
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 238, 242
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 38. 4
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6. 124
References
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, The Epistles of Ovid. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.