Macaria

Family: Greek mythology · Role: daughter of Deianira and Hercules · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 32

Life events

Ceyx sent the children to Athens for protection.(Book 1 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Ceyx
- “Ceyx sent them to Athens, pleading his own weakness, and suggesting that Theseus might be able to protect them”
Theseus refused to surrender the children to Eurystheus.(Book 1 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Theseus Eurystheus
- “as Theseus would not give them up to Eurystheus, though he begged hard for them”
The refusal began the first war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians.(Book 1 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Theseus Eurystheus
- “they brought about the first war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians”
An oracle required one of Hercules’ children to die voluntarily for victory.(Book 1 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Athens)
- “an oracle told the Athenians that one of the children of Hercules must voluntarily die”
Macaria sacrificed herself so the Athenians could win the war.(Book 1 · Chapter 32)
- “Hereupon Macaria, the daughter of Deianira and Hercules, sacrificed herself that the Athenians might conquer in the war”

parent: Deianira “Hereupon Macaria, the daughter of Deianira and Hercules, sacrificed herself that the Athenians might conquer in the war, and the fountain gets its name from her.”
parent: Hercules “Hereupon Macaria, the daughter of Deianira and Hercules, sacrificed herself that the Athenians might conquer in the war, and the fountain gets its name from her.”

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