Neaera (mythology)
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Neaera (/niˈɪərə/; Ancient Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira (/niˈaɪrə/), is the name of multiple female characters in Greek mythology:
- Neaera, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.[1]
- Neaera or Neera, a Nereid and possible mother of Absyrtus by King Aeetes of Colchis.[2]
- Neaera, a lover of Xanthus (Scamander).[3]
- Neaera, a nymph who became the mother of Aegle by Zeus.[citation needed]
- Neaera, a nymph of Thrinacia, mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios.[4]
- Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia, mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas.[5]
- Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon.[6]
- Neaera, a daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus by Aleus.[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, 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, possibly the mother of Triptolemus by Celeus.[12]
