Makaria is one person id say
from the Suda "[A way of referring to] death. [Makaria was] a daughter of Hades. And [there is] a proverb: "be gone into blessedness", meaning into misery and utter destruction. Or "begone into blessedness" [is said] by euphemism. Since even the dead are called blessed ones. [Makaria was] also a daughter of Herakles, whom the Athenians buried with very expensive funeral rites when she had died on their behalf."
Euripides, Heracleidae is my favorite play, and Makaria herself is cool, but I don't think people realize that Makaria is connected not just to the underworld but to PERSEPHONE, whom the sacrifice is for, and if you asked me (hi!) an act of vengeance against Theseus blood for the whole attempted kidnapping thing. The fact that this comes way before and by the big E himself makes me understandably certain that these two characters must be one and the same, far too specific to match. Perhaps reborn as a god-like Hippolytus or many others. why would this happen? Makaria isn't Athenian. sacrifice could've been Athenian, but she volunteered. Revenge averted. Innocent killed. cycles of rebirth and change persophone is the only big god I can think of that adopted mortals and reared them, for example, adonis. aligns with themes of innocence lost and early death and that's classic persophone themes remember it results in a new role in the underworld.
i find that the counterargument is often "she cant have TWO dads!" to that I say nuh uh.
too many coincidences with makaria and the rulers of the underworld. i wouldn't be surprised if there is a lost apotheosis myth.
i am insane and not to be trusted
