Marsis (Μάρσις) was one of the daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia. She was one of forty-nine daughters who by impersonating her older sister Prokris during one of the fifty nights Herakles was in Thespia was able to have sex with Herakles (believing Marsis was Prokris) and consequently get pregnant by him (as King Thespius had hoped). Marse would bare Herakles a son Bokolus.
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King Thespius & Queen Megamede
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Classical Text[]
"by Marse he [Herakles] had Bukolus"
- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8