Nicaretê
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
his mother · my mother
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Freedwoman of Charisius the Elean and wife of his cook Hippias; a professional trainer and seller of courtesans who purchased Neaera and six other girls as children, raised them, and profited from and eventually sold them.
Again after this, men of Athens, Simus the Thessalian came here with the defendant Neaera for the great Panathenaea.
but he lodged the two, Metaneira and Nicaretê, with Philostratus of Colonus, who was a friend of his and was as yet unmarried.
So he asked Nicaretê to come to the mysteries bringing with her Metaneira that she might be initiated, and he promised that he would himself initiate her.
Against Eubulides
The speaker's mother, defended against charges that she was a foreign market-trader and wet-nurse; her citizen birth is attested through an extensive list of maternal kin.
My mother is Nicaretê, the daughter of Damostratus of Melitê.
My grandfather, men of Athens, the father of my mother, was Damostratus of Melitê.
Of these relatives there is living Damostratus, son of Amytheon and nephew of my mother.