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Neaera

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Canonical name
Neaera
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Conservative character kind: Book 12 names Neaera as mother but does not explicitly classify her as a deity.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Reported

Neaera bears and suckles Phaethusa and Lampetie, then sends them to distant Thrinacia to tend their father’s animals.

See evidence text
“who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father’s flocks and herds”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

1
·Reported
“children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera”

Passage preview

Book 12 · Passage 11

‘‘You will now come to the Thrinacian island, and here you will see many herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to the sun-god—seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock. They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetie, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father’s flocks and herds. If you leave these flocks unharmed, and think of nothing but getting home, you may yet after much hardship reach Ithaca; but if you harm them, then I forewarn you of the destruction both of your ship and of your comrades; and even though you may yourself escape, you will return late, in bad plight, after losing all your men.’