[2] Canace was the sister of Athamas, Cretheus, Deioneus, Magnes, Perieres, Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Alcyone, Calyce, Peisidice, Perimede[3] Arne and possibly Tanagra.
This tradition made them children of a different Aeolus, the lord of the winds (or the Tyrrhenian king),[6] and his wife Amphithea.
Aeolus was outraged and compelled Canace to commit suicide as punishment, sending her a sword with which she was to stab herself.
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.
[7] The story is also briefly referred to by Hyginus[8] and retold by Pseudo-Plutarch, in whose account Macareus kills himself over the matter as well.