 This story was told by Latin poet Ovid in the "Heroides", a selection of eighteen story-poems that pretend to be letters from mythological women to their lovers and ex-lovers.The story is also briefly referred to by Hyginus and retold by Pseudo-Plutarch, in whose account Macareus kills himself over the matter as well.It was also the subject of Euripides' lost play "Aeolus", on which the extant versions appear to be based.