Neaera (Greek mythology)

Neaera or Neaira (Greek: Νέαιρα "lower"^[1]) is the name of multiple female characters in Greek mythology:

• Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia, mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas.^[2]

• Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon.^[3]

• Neaera, an Oceanid^[4] nymph of Thrinacia, mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios^[5]

• Neaera, a daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus by Aleus.^[6][7] In another version she married Autolycus.^[8]

• Neaera, a daughter of Autolycus, mother of Hippothous, eventually killed herself after hearing of the death of her son.^[9]

• Neaera, a Nereid and possibly the mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.^[10]

• Neaera, one of the Niobids.^[11]

• Neaera of Lemnos, a friend of Eurynome in whose guise Pheme came to warn Eurynome of her husband's infidelity.^[12]

• Neaera, a lover of Xanthus (Scamander).^[13]

• Neaera, possibly the mother of Triptolemus by Celeus.^[14]

References

1. ↑ A Greek-English Lexicon compiled by H. G. Liddel and R. Scott. 10th edition with a revised supplement. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. p. 1164
2. ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 1. 290 - 291
3. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 1. 2
4. ↑ Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Neaira
5. ↑ Homer, The Odyssey 12. 133 ff
6. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1
7. ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 206
8. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 4. 6
9. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae, 243
10. ↑ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 242
11. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 5. 6
12. ↑ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2. 141
13. ↑ Ovid, Amores, 4.28
14. ↑ Parian Chronicle, 12

External links

• Myth Index - Neaera
• Theoi.com - Neaira (consort of Helios)
• Theoi.com - Neaira (consort of Strymon)
• Theoi.com - Neaira (consort of Theiodamas)