Neaera (Greek mythology)

Neaera (/nɪˈɪərə/; Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira (/nɪˈaɪrə/), is the name of multiple female characters in Greek mythology:

• Neaera, an Oceanid.^[1]
• Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia, mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas.^[2]
• Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon.^[3]
• Neaera, a nymph of Thrinacia, mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios.^[4]
• Neaera, a daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus by Aleus.^[5][6] In another version she married Autolycus.^[7]
• Neaera, mother of Aegle by Zeus.
• Neaera, a daughter of Autolycus, mother of Hippothous, eventually killed herself after hearing of the death of her son.^[8]
• Neaera, a Nereid and possibly the mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.^[9]
• Neaera, one of the Niobids.^[10]
• Neaera of Lemnos, a friend of Eurynome in whose guise Pheme came to warn Eurynome of her husband's infidelity.^[11]
• Neaera, a lover of Xanthus (Scamander).^[12]
• Neaera, possibly the mother of Triptolemus by Celeus.^[13]

References

1. ↑ Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Νέαιρα
2. ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 1. 290 - 291
3. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 1. 2
4. ↑ Homer, The Odyssey 12. 133 ff
5. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1
6. ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 206
7. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 4. 6
8. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae, 243
9. ↑ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 242
10. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 5. 6
11. ↑ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2. 141
12. ↑ Ovid, Amores, 4.28
13. ↑ Parian Chronicle, 12