Megara
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 10 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.
Since we must die, let us do so without being burnt alive, a source of mockery to our enemies, which to my mind is an evil worse than death;
appear, I pray, if only as a phantom, since your arrival, even as a dream, would be enough, for they are cowards who are slaying your children.
allow me to deck my children in the robes of death, first opening the palace gates, for now we are shut out, so that this at least they may obtain from their father’s halls.