Makareus

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Makareus ( Latin Macareus ) comes from the island of Ithaca and is a companion of Odysseus . In Ovid's Metamorphoses he tells his companion Achaimenides (Latin Achaemenides ) about Odysseus' adventures: the encounter with Aiolos , the Laistrygonen , Kirke and his own transformation through Kirke into a pig and his transformation back.

Makareus is not mentioned in Homer's Odyssey .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ovid , Metamorphoses 14,159.
  2. Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.223-307.