Neaera (mythology)

Not to be confused with Neaira (hetaera).

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]