Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

When the Argonauts land among the Phaeacians, the poem recalls Macris, daughter of Aristaeus, who once received the infant Dionysus in Euboea. She moistened his lips with honey and tended him in a sacred cave; Hera’s anger later drove Macris from her home, and she came to dwell in the land of the Phaeacians—so the island’s sacred associations with Dionysus and with Macris’s cave enter the Argonautic return narrative. The notice preserves a local Euboean–Corcyrean nursing aetiology parallel to Ino’s and the Nysan nymphs’: Dionysus is hidden from Hera and fed with honey. Catalogue Macris apart from Semele’s death and apart from the Tyrrhenian pirates.