Neaera (mythology)
Neaera (/nɪˈɪərə/; Template:Lang-grc-gre), 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, 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 of Lemnos, a friend of Eurynome in whose guise Pheme came to warn Eurynome of her husband's infidelity.[11]
- Neaera, possibly the mother of Triptolemus by Celeus.[13]
References
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 1. 290 - 291
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 1. 2
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Neaira
- ^ Homer, The Odyssey 12. 133 ff
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1 [1]
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 206
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 4. 6
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 243 [2]
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 242
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 5. 6
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2. 141
- ^ Ovid, Amores, 4.28
- ^ Parian Chronicle, 12