Neaera (mythology)

Neaera (/niˈɪərə/; Ancient Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira (/niˈaɪrə/), 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, a nymph who became the mother of Aegle by Zeus.[8]
• Neaera, a daughter of Autolycus, mother of Hippothous, eventually killed herself after hearing of the death of her son.[9]
• Neaera or Neera, 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]

Notes

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. Pausanias, 9. 35. § 1
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. The Parian Marble, Fragment 12 (March 7, 2001). "Interleaved Greek and English text (translation by Gillian Newing)". Archived from the original on December 25, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2019.

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Amores edited by Christopher Marlowe, Ed. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Amores, Epistulae, Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris. R. Ehwald. edidit ex Rudolphi Merkelii recognitione. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1907. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.