Macareus (son of Aeolus)

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Macareus (

Tyrrhenia.[3][4] His mother was, at least in the latter case, Amphithea
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Mythology

Macareus and his sister Canace fell in love with each other and had a child together. Canace was ordered to kill herself and the baby exposed by Aeolus after he had discovered this, and Macareus killed himself.[5]

Macareus, son of Aeolus, is also given as the father of Amphissa or Issa, who was seduced by Apollo in disguise of a shepherd.[6] Ancient sources do not clarify whether she was the child of Macareus by Canace, or a different child by another unknown consort. In Ovid's account the child of Canace apparently doesn't survive.

Notes

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  2. ^ Ovid, Heroides 11.6 - 16
  3. ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora 28
  4. Apollodorus
    , 1.7.3
  5. Hyginus
    , Fabulae 238 & 242
  6. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.38.4; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.124

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