Macaria

A daughter of Heracles by Deianeira. She took her own life in order to give the Athenians victory in a war with the Peloponnesians, whence Zenobius derives the proverb βάλλ̓ ἐς μακαρίαν ("be gone into blessedness"). A spring in Marathon is named after her.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 32.6.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Zenobius. Proverbs ii, 61.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.