Neaera (Greek mythology)

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

• Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia, mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas.^[1]
• Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon.^[2]
• Neaera, an Oceanid^[3] 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, 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. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 1. 290 - 291
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 1. 2
3. Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Neaira
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

External links

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