Macaria
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Macaria or Makaria (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.[1]) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology:
- Macaria, daughter of Heracles and Deianira who willingly accepted to be sacrificed in order to save her people.[2]
- Macaria, daughter of Hades, king of the Underworld.[3]
References
- ↑ Liddell & Scott 1940, s.v. μακαρία.
- ↑ Euripides, Children of Heracles 474–607
- ↑ Suda mu 51; Greek text with English translation at Suda On Line, mu 51.
Bibliography
- Euripides, Children of Heracles in Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Online text available at Perseus Digital Library.
- Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). Sir Henry Stuart Jones; Roderick McKenzie (eds.). A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.