Macris

Family: divine · Role: nurse of Dionysus · First appears: Book IV 5

Life events

• Hera drives Macris from the whole island in anger.(Book IV 9 · 📍 Abantian Euboea)
  • With: Hera
  • “And Hera beheld it, and in wrath drove her from the whole island.”

Book IV 5

• ward: Dionysus “Macris, the nurse of Dionysus”

Book IV 8

• with Demeter (The passage explicitly says Demeter acted for love of Macris.) “For Demeter once dwelt in that island, and taught the Titans to reap the ears of corn, all for the love of Macris.”

Book IV 9

• parent: Aristaeus “the sacred cave, where once dwelt Macris, the daughter of Aristaeus, lord of honey”
• enemies with Hera “And Hera beheld it, and in wrath drove her from the whole island.”

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