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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]
Notes
^
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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