Editing Macaria

{{Short description|Name in Greek mythology}}
{{About|the name in Greek mythology|other uses of the term|Macaria (disambiguation){{!}}Macaria}}

'''Macaria''' or '''Makaria''' ({{langx|grc|Μακαρία|Makaría|blessed one, blessedness}}{{sfn|Liddell|Scott|1940|loc=s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*m%3Aentry+group%3D4%3Aentry%3Dmakari%2Fa μακαρία]}}) is the name of two figures from [[Religion in ancient Greece|ancient Greek religion]] and [[Greek mythology|mythology]]:

* [[Macaria (daughter of Heracles)|Macaria]], daughter of [[Heracles]] and [[Deianira]] who willingly accepted to be sacrificed in order to save her people.<ref>Euripides, ''[[Children of Heracles]]'' 474–607</ref>
* [[Macaria (daughter of Hades)|Macaria]], daughter of [[Hades]], king of the Underworld.<ref>''[[Suda]]'' mu 51; Greek text with English translation at Suda On Line, [https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-cgi-bin/search.cgi?db=REAL&field=adlerhw_gr&searchstr=mu,51 mu 51].</ref> 

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* [[Euripides]], ''[[Children of Heracles]]'' in ''Euripides'', with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0104%3Acard%3D1 Online text available at Perseus Digital Library.]
* {{cite book | first1 = Henry George | last1 = Liddell | first2 = Robert | last2 = Scott | title = A Greek-English Lexicon | editor1 = Sir Henry Stuart Jones | editor2 = Roderick McKenzie | location = Oxford | publisher = [[Clarendon Press]] | date = 1940 | author1-link = Henry Liddell | author2-link = Robert Scott (philologist) | url = https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057}}

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