Megara

American  

[meg-er-uh] / ˈmɛg ər ə /

noun

1. a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.

2. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Creon whose children were slain by her husband, Hercules, in a fit of madness.

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Megara British  

/ ˈmɛɡərə /

noun

1. a town in E central Greece: an ancient trading city, founding many colonies in the 7th and 8th centuries _bc. Pop: (municipality): 27 252 (2001)

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Other Word Forms

• Megarean adjective
• Megarian adjective
• Megaric adjective

Example Sentences

Mulder notes that Thucydides wrote about what may have been the first use of sanctions, when Athens instituted a commercial ban against merchants from the city of Megara in 432 B.C.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2022

They’re as old as foreign policy itself: In 432 BC Athens imposed a trade embargo on its neighbor, Megara, just before the Peloponnesian War.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022

As Gaddis recounts, Megara was a “molehill” at the northeastern end of the Corinthian isthmus whose citizens “had long feuded with the Athenians, while posing no military threat to the larger city.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2018

On the first two nights 19,000 troops were evacuated from Megara, west of Athens on the isthmus of Corinth, and from beaches on the jagged south shore of the Peloponnesos.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Megara had borne him three sons he went mad.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton