Megara
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 11 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Megara the place
Alcmena's son's wife · his wife · lady · mother · their mother · wife of Heracles
in the texts
Heracles
Daughter of Creon and wife of Heracles; mother of his three sons; she faces death alongside Amphitryon and the children when Lycus threatens the family, and is later saved by Heracles' return.
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Odyssey
Daughter of King Kreon who marries Herakles, son of Amphitryon.
and Megara who was daughter to great King Kreon, and married the redoubtable son of Amphitryon.
Isthmean
Daughter of Creon and wife of Heracles, mother of the eight sons commemorated with burnt offerings by the Thebans.
For him, above the Electran gates, we Thebans, busily preparing the feast and the circle of newly-built altars, pile up burnt offerings in honor of the eight bronze-clad men, now dead, the sons whom Megara, Creon’s daughter, bore him.