Megara

Family: Greek · Role: mother of Hercules' sons · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 41

Megara was married to Hercules and had sons with him. By Book 9, Chapter 11, all their children had died, and a monument commemorated the sons of Hercules by Megara. In Book 10, Chapter 29, Hercules repudiated her after losing their children, “because he lost all his children by her.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The sons of Hercules and Megara died, commemorated by a monument.(Book 9 · Chapter 11)
  • With: Hercules
  • “they also show the monument of the sons of Hercules by Megara, giving a very similar account about their death”
• Hercules repudiated Megara after losing all their children.(Book 10 · Chapter 29)
  • With: Hercules
  • “the Theban Megara, who was Hercules’ wife, but eventually repudiated by him, because he lost all his children by her, and so did not think his marriage with her a lucky one.”

Book 1 · Chapter 41

• with Hercules (They had sons together.) “for the sons of Hercules by Megara were buried at Thebes”

Book 9 · Chapter 11

• with Hercules (interaction) “But the Thebans add that Hercules in his madness wished also to kill Amphitryon, but sleep came upon him in consequence of a blow from a stone, and they say Athene threw the stone, which they call Composer.”

Book 10 · Chapter 29

• married with Hercules “the Theban Megara, who was Hercules’ wife, but eventually repudiated by him”
• with Hercules (Hercules repudiated Megara) “the Theban Megara, who was Hercules’ wife, but eventually repudiated by him, because he lost all his children by her, and so did not think his marriage with her a lucky one.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.