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Macaria, one of the daughters of Heracles, and her brothers and sisters hid from Eurystheus in Athens, ruled by King Demophon.
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In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.
In the Heracleidae of Euripides, Macaria (" she who is blessed ") is a daughter of Heracles.
Macaria and her
Macaria volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the Macarian spring in her honor.
Macaria volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the Macarian spring in her honor.
Macaria flees with her siblings and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by Demophon, the king.
Upon hearing this, Macaria sees that her only choice is immediate death on the altar or eventual death at the hands of Eurystheus.
Macaria and from
She also was said to have become the mother of Macaria ( who saved the Athenians from defeat by Eurystheus ).
Macaria or Makaria ( Greek Μακαρία ) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Macaria and by
The Byzantine Empire, beginning in the reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos and continuing in that of Andronikos III Palaiologos, was raided by the Golden Horde between 1320 and 1341, until the Byzantine port of Vicina Macaria was occupied.
* Samuel Hartlib ( nominal author, really by Gabriel Plattes )-A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria
Emperor Andronikos III ( Andronicus III ) purportedly gave his illegitimate daughter in marriage to Öz Beg but relations turned sour at the end of Andonicus's reign, and the Mongols mounted raids on Thrace between 1320 to 1324 until the Byzantine port of Vicina Macaria was occupied by the Mongols.
An example of this in early literature is Macaria in Heracleidae by Euripides.
Macaria and .
) Other Heracleidae included Macaria, Lamos, Manto, Bianor, Tlepolemus, and Telephus.
This Macaria is asserted to be the daughter of Hades, but no mother is mentioned.
* Macareus, a son of Lycaon, eponym of the town of Macaria in Arcadia.
A goddess Macaria is named in the Suda.
One source suggests Macaria may have been a more merciful counterpart of the death-god Thanatos.
Another suggested possibility is that Macaria may have been connected with the passage of souls to the Nesoi Makarioi, or the Fortunate Isles or Islands of the Blest.
The utopian tract Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria appeared under Hartlib's name.
one and daughters
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one and Heracles
Extending one night into three, Zeus slept with Alcmene ( his great-granddaughter ) ( thereby conceiving Heracles ) and recounted Amphitryon's victories against the Teleboans.
More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.
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In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.
In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.
Thus, Heracles ' very existence proved at least one of Zeus ' many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus ' mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities.
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Heracles ' advances were spurned by the king and his sons, except for one: Iole's brother Iphitus.
In Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain their king, Theiodamas, over one of the latter's bulls, and made war upon the Dryopes " because they gave no heed to justice in their lives ".
one constellation known as Heracles ' constellation.
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Of these, the one most closely linked to Heracles is the Theban Iolaus.
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Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).
No one but Heracles ' friend Philoctetes ( Poeas in some versions ) would light his funeral pyre ( in an alternate version, it is Iolaus who lights the pyre ).
Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.
He designed Hermes ' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles ' armor, Heracles ' bronze clappers, Helios ' chariot ( and one for himself, to be used on account of his lameness ), the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros ' bow and arrows.
Among these men was Heracles ' servant Hylas who was gathering water while Heracles was out finding some wood to carve a new oar to replace the one that broke.
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