Macareus (son of Aeolus)
Macareus or Macar 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,[1] or Aeolus the king of Tyrrhenia.[2][3] His mother was, at least in the latter case, Amphithea.
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.[2][4][5]
Macareus, son of Aeolus, is also given as the father of Amphissa or Issa, who was seduced by Apollo in disguise of a shepherd.[6][7] 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.
References
- ↑ Ovid, Heroids, 11. 6 - 16
- 1 2 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