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The king mackerel is a subtropical species of the Atlantic Coast of the Americas. Common in the coastal zone from North Carolina to Brazil, it occurs as far south as Rio de Janeiro, and occasionally as far north as the Gulf of Maine and found in Western coast of India predominantly in the Arabian Sea as well as in the East coast of India Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean.
Macareus (/ m ə ˈ k ær i ə s,-ˈ k ɑːr j uː s /; Ancient Greek: Μακαρεύς Makareus 'happy' [1]) or Macar (/ ˈ m eɪ k ər /; Ancient Greek: Μάκαρ Makar) was, in Greek mythology, the son of Aeolus, though sources disagree as to which bearer of this name was his father: it could either be Aeolus the lord of the winds, [2] or Aeolus the king of Tyrrhenia.
In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos [1] (/ ˈ iː ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Αἴολος [ǎi̯.o.los], Greek: ⓘ) is a name shared by three mythical characters.These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.
An etiological myth of their origins, simply expanding upon their supposed etymology—the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as "ant-people", from myrmedon (Ancient Greek: μῠρμηδών, murmēdṓn, plural: μῠρμηδόνες, murmēdónes), which means "ant-nest"—was first mentioned by Ovid in the Metamorphoses.
In Greek mythology, Macar (/ ˈ m eɪ k ər /; Ancient Greek: Μάκαρ Makar) or Macareus (/ m ə ˈ k ær i ə s,-ˈ k ɑːr j uː s /; Μακαρεύς Makareus means 'happy' [1]) or Macareas (Μακαρέας, Makareas), is the name of several individuals:
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Basileus (Ancient Greek: βασιλεύς) [a] is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs throughout history. In the English-speaking world it is perhaps most widely understood to mean ' monarch ', referring to either a ' king ' or an ' emperor '.
Anax (Greek: ἄναξ; from earlier ϝάναξ, wánax) is an ancient Greek word for "tribal chief, lord (military) leader". [1] It is one of the two Greek titles traditionally translated as "king", the other being basileus, and is inherited from Mycenaean Greece. It is notably used in Homeric Greek, e.g. for Agamemnon.