In Greek mythology, Macar (/ˈmeɪkər/; Ancient Greek: Μάκαρ, lit. ‘happy, blissful‘)[1] or Macareus (/məˈkæriəs, –ˈkɑːrjuːs/; Μακαρεύς) or Macareas (Μακαρέας), is the name of several individuals:
- Macareus, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[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, son of Aeolus and either Enarete or Amphithea.[6]
- 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 king of Lesbos and son of Crinacus.[9]
- Macareus of Rhodes, one of the Heliadae, children of Rhodus and Helios.[10]
- Macareus, one of the Lapiths at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia; he killed the Centaur Erigdupus.[11]
- 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
- ^ Beekes, s.v. μάκαρ, p. 893.
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Pausanias, 8.3.1; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Makareai
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora 28
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 161
- ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, l. 47
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.81.4
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.57.2
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.452
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.159 ff.
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Beekes, Robert S. P., Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Leiden, Brill, 2009. ISBN 978-90-04-17418-4. Internet Archive.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer’s Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer’s Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
- 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.
- 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.