MACAR (ma’-kar): legendary founding king of Lesbos, 24.636.
MACHAON (ma-kay’-on): Achaean, son of Asclepius, healer and co-commander with his brother Podalirius of the Thessalians from Tricca and Oechalia, 2.834.
MAEANDER (mee-an’-der): river in Caria, in southern Asia Minor, near Miletus (2), 2.981.
MAEMALUS (mee’-ma-lus): father of Pisander (3), 16.229.
MAEONIANS (mee-oh’-ni-unz): Trojan allies, 2.978, people of MAEONIA (mee-oh’- ni-a), a region around Lake Gyge in central Asia Minor, 2.976.
MAGNESIANS (mag-nee’-shunz): people from a region on the northeastern coast of Thessaly, led by Prothous, 2.859.
MANTINEA (man-ti-nee’-a): city in Arcadia, 2.700.
MARIS (ma’-ris): Trojan ally, son of Amisodarus, Lycian killed by Thrasymedes, 16.377.
MARPESSA (mar-pes’ -a): daughter of Euenus (2), husband of Idas, mother of Cleopatra, 9.679. See note ad loc.
MASES (may’-seez): city in the Argolid, the kingdom of Diomedes, 2.653.
MASTOR (mas’ -tor): father of the Achaean Lycophron, 15.502.
MECISTEUS (mee-sis’-tyoos): (1) son of Talaus, father of the Achaean Euryalus, 2.657. (2) Achaean, son of Echius (1), killed by Polydamas, 8.380.
MEDEON (me’-de-on): city in Boeotia, 2.591.
MEDESICASTE (mee-de-si-kas’-tee): illegitimate daughter of Priam, wife of the Trojan Imbrius, 13.207.
MEDON (me’-don): (1) Achaean, bastard son of Oileus (1), second in command of the Thessalians from Methone, killed by Aeneas, 2.829. (2) Trojan captain, 17.249.
MEGAS (me’-gas): father of the Trojan Perimus, 16.813.
MEGES (me’ -jeez): Achaean, son of Phyleus, commander of the men from Dulichion and the Echinades, 2.720.
MELANIPPUS (me-la-nip’-us): (1) Trojan killed by Teucer, 8.316. (2) Trojan, son of Hicetaon, killed by Antilochus, 15.635. (3) Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.813. (4) Achaean captain, 19.284.
MELANTHIUS (me-lan’-thi-us): Trojan killed by Eurypylus (2), 6.43.
MELAS (me’-las): son of Portheus, brother of Oeneus, 14.143.
MELEAGER (me-le-ay’-ger): son of Oeneus and Althaea, prince of the Aetolians in Calydon, 2.737. See note 9.646-729.
MELlBOEA (me-li-bee’-a): city in Thessaly, in the kingdom of Philoctetes, 2.818.
MENELAUS (me-ne-lay’-us): Achaean, son of Atreus, king of Lacedaemon, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, 1.19. See note 3.247.
MENESTHES (me-nes’-theez): Achaean killed by Hector, 5.699.
MENESTHEUS (me-nes’ -thyoos): Achaean, son of Peteos, commander of the Athenians, 2.643.
MENESTHIUS (me-nes’-thi-us): (1) Achaean, son of Areithous (1), killed by Paris, 7.9. (2) Achaean, son of Spercheus River, reputed son of Borus (2), a captain of the Myrmidons, 16.204.
MENOETIUS (me-nee’-shus): son of Actor (3), father of Patroclus, 9.243.
MENON (me’-non): Trojan killed by Leonteus, 12.223.
MENTES (men’-teez): Trojan, commander of the Cicones, impersonated by Apollo, 17.83.
MENTOR (men’-tor): father of the Trojan Imbrius, 13.204.
MERIONES (me-reye’-o-neez): Achaean, son of Molus. comrade of Idomeneus, second in command of the Cretans, 2.746.
MERMERUS (mur’-me-rus): Trojan killed by Antilochus, 14.600.
MEROPS (me’-rops): prophet from Percote, father of the Trojans Adrestus (1) and Amphius (1), 2.942.
MESSE (mes’-ee): city in Lacedaemon, 2.674.
MESSEIS (me-see’-is): spring in Greece, location unknown, 6.544.
MESTHLES (mesth’-leez): Trojan ally, son of Talaemenes, co-commander of the Maeonians, 2.976.
MESTOR (mee’-stor): Trojan, son of Priam, 24.305.
METHONE (me-thoh’-nee): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Philoctetes, 2.817.
MIDEA (mi-dee’-a): city in Boeotia, 2.598.
MILETUS (meye-lee’-tus): (1) city in Crete, 2.742. (2) City of the Carians, in southern Asia Minor, 2.980.
MINOS (meye’-nos): son of Zeus and Europa, father of Deucalion (1), king of Crete, 13.523.
MINVANS (min’-yunz): people of Orchomenos (1), commanded by Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, 2.601.
MINYEOS (mi-ni-ee’-os): river in the western Peloponnese on the border of Nestor’s kingdom, 11.859.
MNESUS (mnee’-sus): Trojan ally, Paeonian killed by Achilles, 21.236.
MOLION (mo-leye’-on): Trojan, comrade of Thymbraeus, killed by Odysseus, 11.374.
MOLIONES (mo-leye’-o-neez): the twin brothers Cleatus and Eurytus (2), reputed sons of Actor (2) but actually sired by Poseidon, 11.843. See note 11.892.
MOLUS (mo’-lus): father of the Achaean Meriones, 10.315.
MORYS (mo’-ris): Trojan, son of Hippotion, killed by Meriones, 13.917.
MULIUS (moo’-li-us): (1) Epean hero, son-in-law of Augeas, killed by Nestor, 11.879. (2) Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.814. (3) Trojan killed by Achilles, 20.533.
MUSES: goddesses, daughters of Zeus, nine in number, who preside over literature and the arts and are the sources of artistic inspiration, 1.726.
MYCALE (mi-ka’-lee): mountain in Caria, in southern Asia Minor, across from Miletus (2), 2.981.
MYCALESSUS (mi-ka-les’-us): city in Boeotia, 2.588.
MYCENAE (mi-see’-nee): city in the Argolid, Agamemnon’s capital, just to the north of the city of Argos, 2.660.
MYDON (meye’-don): (1) Trojan, son of Atymnius, charioteer of Pylaemenes, killed by Antilochus, 3.667. (2) Trojan ally, Peonian killed by Achilles, 21.235.
MYGDON (mig’-don): commander of the Phyrgians, 3.226.