Macareus (; Ancient Greek: Μακαρεύς Makareus 'happy') or Macar (; Ancient Greek: Μάκαρ Makar) was, in Greek mythology, the son of Aeolus, though sources disagree as to which bearer of this name was his father: it could either be Aeolus the lord of the winds,Ovid, Heroides 11.6 - 16 or Aeolus the king of Tyrrhenia.Plutarch, Parallela minora 28Canace, but not Macareus, was included on the list of children of Aeolus the son of Hellen in Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a); Apollodorus, 1.7.3 His mother was, at least in the latter case, Amphithea.
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.Ovid, Heroides 11; Plutarch, Parallela minora 28; Hyginus, Fabulae 238 & 242
Macareus, son of Aeolus, is also given as the father of Amphissa or Issa, who was seduced by Apollo in disguise of a shepherd.Pausanias, 10.38.4; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.124 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.
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