Neaera
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 12 anchored passages
the defendant Neaera · this Neaera · this woman
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Former slave and courtesan, originally one of seven girls purchased and trained by Nicaretê; now living as the wife of Stephanus and accused of illegally cohabiting with an Athenian citizen and passing off alien children as citizens.
I must now prove to you that this woman Neaera is an alien, that she is living with this man Stephanus as his wife, and that she has violated the laws of the state in many ways.
Hipparchus of Athmonon deposes that Xenocleides and he hired in Corinth Neaera, the present defendant, as a courtesan who prostituted herself for money, and that Neaera used to drink at Corinth in the company of himself and Xenocleides the poet.
The daughter of this woman Neaera, whom she brought with her as a small child to the house of Stephanus, and whom they then called Strybele, but now call Phano, was given in marriage by this fellow Stephanus as being his own daughter to an Athenian, Phrastor, of Aegilia;