Macareus

Family: mortal · Role: father of Isse · First appears: Fable 55

Life events

Antiphates and his followers destroyed the fleet, while Macareus and Ulysses escaped.(Fable105 · 📍 Lamus)
- With: Antiphates Ulysses
- “Antiphates pursued us as we fled, and called together his followers; they flocked together, and, without intermission, they showered both stones and beams, and they overwhelmed men, and ships, too, did they overwhelm; yet one, which carried us and Ulysses himself, escaped.”
Circe transforms Macareus, Polytes, Elpenor, and their companions into swine.(Fable106 · 📍 isle of Circe)
- With: Circe Polytes Elpenor
- “Soon as, in our thirst, we quaffed them with parching mouth, and the ruthless Goddess, with her wand, touched the extremity of our hair (I am both ashamed, and {yet} I will tell of it), I began to grow rough with bristles, and no longer to be able to speak; and, instead of words, to utter a harsh noise, and to grovel on the ground with all my face.”
Circe reverses the enchantment and restores the transformed companions to human form.(Fable106 · 📍 isle of Circe)
- With: Circe Ulysses Polytes Elpenor
- “The longer she chaunts them, the more erect are we raised from the ground; and the bristles fall off, and the fissure leaves our cloven feet; our shoulders return; our arms become attached[27] to their upper parts.”

child: Isse “She was a native of either Lesbos, or Eubœa. Her father, Macareus, was the son of Jupiter and Cyrene.”

friends with Achæmenides “Do thou too, dearest of my companions, relate thy adventures, and those of thy chief, and of the company, which, together with thee, entrusted {themselves} to the ocean.”
friends with Ulysses “Macareus of Neritos, the companion of the experienced Ulysses, had rested, after the prolonged weariness of his toils.”
enemies with Antiphates “Antiphates pursued us as we fled, and called together his followers; they flocked together, and, without intermission, they showered both stones and beams, and they overwhelmed men, and ships, too, did they overwhelm”

with Polytes (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
with Eurylochus (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
with Elpenor (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
with Circe (Circe transformed Macareus into a swine.) “Soon as, in our thirst, we quaffed them with parching mouth, and the ruthless Goddess, with her wand, touched the extremity of our hair (I am both ashamed, and {yet} I will tell of it), I began to grow rough with bristles, and no longer to be able to speak; and, instead of words, to utter a harsh noise, and to grovel on the ground with all my face.”
with Ulysses (Ulysses is identified as the companions' chief.) “In tears, we embrace him {also} in tears; and we cling to the neck of our chief; nor do we utter any words before those that testify that we are grateful.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.