Mermerus
2. A son of Jason and Medeia, is also called Macareus or Mormorus (Hyg. Fab. 239; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 175); he was murdered, together with his brother Pheres, by his mother at Corinth. (Apollod. 1.9.28; Hyg. Fab. 25; Diod. 4.54.) According to others he was stoned to death by the Corinthians (Paus. 2.3.6; Schol. ad Eurip. Med. 10), or he was killed during the chase by a lioness. (Paus. 2.3.7.) A centaur, Mermerus, is mentioned by Ovid. (Met. 12.305.)
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.