Mermerus

A son of Jason and Medea, is also called Macar, Macareus or Mormorus;1 he was murdered, together with his brother Pheres, by his mother at Corinth.2 According to others he was stoned to death by the Corinthians,3 or he was killed during the chase by a lioness.4

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References

Notes

  1. Hyginus. Fabulae, 239; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 175.
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.28; Hyginus. Fabulae, 25; Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 54.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 3.6; Scholiast on Euripides' Medea, 10.
  4. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 3.7.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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