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The daughter of Kreon (Creon), king of the city of Thebes and the wife of Herakles (Heracles).
After the young Herakles settled a quarrel for Kreon he was rewarded by being allowed to marry Megara; Hera, in her zeal to punish Zeus for having fathered Herakles, inflicted Herakles with a fit of madness and he murdered his children; the oldest artwork depicting this scene shows Megara escaping Herakles’ wrath but later versions insist that Megara was also murdered at the hands of the insane Herakles.
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