Neaera (; Ancient Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira (), 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]
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Νέαιρα
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.242
- ^ Ovid, Amores 3.6.28
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 12.133 ff
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.290–291
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.2
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 206
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.6
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 243
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.6
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 2.141
- ^ 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.
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