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Μακαρία

(Μακαρία), a daughter of Heracles by Deianeira, from whom Zenobius derives the proverb βάλλ̓ ἐς μακαριαν because she had put an end to herself. (Paus. 1.32.6; Zenob. Prov. 2.61.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.