Macareus, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[2]Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He was the
eponym of the town of
Macaria in
Arcadia.[4] Macareus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Macareus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[5]
Macareus, a king of
Locris and father to
Euboea.[7] He may be the same with Macareus, father of
Megaclite who consorted with
Zeus and became the mother of
Thebe and
Locrus.[8]
Macareus, a companion to
Odysseus on his voyages, from
Nericus, who also encountered
Aeneas. He was one of those who got transformed into pigs by
Circe.[12]
See also
Macaristan (in Turkish) and Al Majar (in Arabic) names for
Hungary based on its name, Magyarország, in Hungarian.
Notes
^Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 162.
ISBN9780241983386.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
Macareus, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiadCyllene,[2]Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He was the
eponym of the town of
Macaria in
Arcadia.[4] Macareus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Macareus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[5]
Macareus, a king of
Locris and father to
Euboea.[7] He may be the same with Macareus, father of
Megaclite who consorted with
Zeus and became the mother of
Thebe and
Locrus.[8]
Macareus, a companion to
Odysseus on his voyages, from
Nericus, who also encountered
Aeneas. He was one of those who got transformed into pigs by
Circe.[12]
See also
Macaristan (in Turkish) and Al Majar (in Arabic) names for
Hungary based on its name, Magyarország, in Hungarian.
Notes
^Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 162.
ISBN9780241983386.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.