Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Macareus was one of the Heliadae sons of Helios and Rhodos. Macareus and his brothers Triopas Actis and Candalus were jealous of a fifth brother Tenages’s skill at science so they killed him and had to escape from Rhodes upon discovery of their crime. (The two Heliadae Ochimus and Cercaphus stayed aside and remained on the island of Rhodes).Macareus fled to Lesbos where he became king and took over many of the neighboring islands.