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.
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.
Again after this, men of Athens, Simus the Thessalian came here with the defendant Neaera for the great Panathenaea.
There were these seven girls who were purchased while they were small children by Nicaretê, who was the freedwoman of Charisius the Elean and the wife of his cook Hippias.
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 grandfather, men of Athens, the father of my mother, was Damostratus of Melitê.
My mother, men of the jury, first married Protomachus, to whom she was given by Timocrates, her brother born of the same father and the same mother;
Of these relatives there is living Damostratus, son of Amytheon and nephew of my mother.