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Maera (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Maera or Maira (Ancient Greek: Μαῖρα means "the sparkler") may refer to the following personages:
Humans
- Maera or Mera,[1] one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[2] She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.[3]
- Maera, daughter of Atlas and ancestor of the below Maera.[4] She was the mother by Tegeates, of Leimon, Scephrus, Archedius, Gortys, and Cydon.[5]
- Maera, descendant of the above Maera.[6]
- Maera, daughter of Proetus, son of Thersander, son of Sisyphus, was still a maid when she died.[7] Otherwise, she was the mother of Locrus by Zeus.[8] In some accounts, Locrus' mother was Megaclite, daughter of Macareus.[9] Maera's shade appeared to Odysseus when the hero visited the underworld.[10]
- Maera, one of the Erasinides, Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Erasinus. She and her sisters, Anchiroe, Byze and Melite, received Britomartis.[11]
- Maera, priestess of Aphrodite, and mother of two sons killed by Tydeus during the war of the Seven Against Thebes.[12]
Animal
- Maera, name of Hecabe when she was changed into the black bitch of Hecate to spread terror among the Thracians with her howling.[13]
- Maera, hound of Erigone.[14]
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Scheffero)
- ^ Homer, Iliad 18.48
- ^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
- ^ Pausanias, 8.12.7
- ^ Pausanias, 8.48.6 & 8.53.2-4
- ^ Pausanias, 8.12.7
- ^ Pausanias, 10.30.5
- ^ Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
- ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.326
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 40
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 8.477
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.399-428
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.14.7
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