Neaera

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Neaera (sometimes translated as Neaira) can refer to:

• Neaera (band) — a death metal / metalcore band from Germany
• In Greek mythology, Neaera was one of several individuals:
  1. Neaera was the wife of Strymon and mother of Evadne.
  2. Neaera was one of the Niobids, a murdered daughter of Amphion and Niobe.
  3. Neaera was a nymph, the mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios.
• In Greek history Neaira was a hetaira, known largely from the speech Against Neaera (c. 340 BCE) attributed to the Athenian orator Apollodoros.