Megareus of Onchestus

In Greek mythology, Megareus of Onchestus was king of Onchestus in Boeotia. He was either son of Poseidon and Oenope, daughter of Epopeus,Hyginus, Fabulae, 157 or of Onchestus (eponym of their kingdom), or of Apollo, or of Aegeus,Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Megara or of Hippomenes.Bibliotheca 3. 15. 8 He came with his army to the assistance of Nisos, husband of his sister Abrota,Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 16 against Minos. In one version, he died in the battle, and the city of Nisa (Nisos' domain) was renamed Megara in his honor;Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 39. 5 in another, he married Iphinoe, daughter of Nisos, and succeeded to his father-in-law's power over Megara.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 39. 6; 1. 41. 5 His children by Iphinoe were Evippus, Timalcus, and Evaechme; he also had a son Hippomenes by Merope.Hyginus, Fabulae, 185 With the aid of the god Apollo, Alcathous killed the Cithaeronian lion, for which Megareus gave him his daughter Euaechme as wife. He subsequently made Alcathous his successor, because his own sons did not outlive him: Evippus was killed by the lion, and Timalcus was slain by Theseus, having joined the Dioscuri in the campaign against him.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 41. 3
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