"Against Neaera" was a prosecution speech delivered by Apollodoros of Acharnae against the freedwoman Neaera. It was preserved as part of the Demosthenic corpus, though it is widely considered to be pseudo-Demosthenic, possibly written by Apollodoros himself. The speech was part of the prosecution of Neaera, a hetaera who was accused of unlawfully marrying an Athenian citizen. Though the speech claims that the case was brought for personal reasons, the date of the prosecution has led scholars to believe that it was in fact politically motivated. In common with most legal cases from ancient Athens, the outcome is unknown.
The speech is important to modern scholars as the best extant biography of a woman from the classical period of ancient Greece, the most extensive surviving source on prostitution in ancient Greece, and the source of Athenian laws on adultery and citizenship which do not otherwise survive. However, it only began to receive significant attention from scholars in the 1990s, as before that period the focus of the speech on prostitution was considered to be inappropriate.
"AgainstNeaera" was a prosecution speech delivered by Apollodoros of Acharnae against the freedwoman Neaera. It was preserved as part of the Demosthenic...
The pallakai were accepted as part of Greek society. In the speech "AgainstNeaera", it is said: We have hetairai [prostitutes] for pleasure, pallakai...
battle, also a poet. Anteia, a woman in ancient Greece described in AgainstNeaera as the property of Nicarete, who prostituted her c. 340 BC. Anthony...
Perhaps the fullest explanation of their status came from Demosthenes in AgainstNeaera. During this oration, he had the clerk read out a previously enacted...
Apollodorus' famous tripartite division of the types of women in the speech AgainstNeaera ("We have courtesans for pleasure, concubines for the daily tending...
be seen in the following passage of the pseudo-Demosthenic Oration AgainstNeaera: We keep mistresses for our pleasures, concubines for constant attendance...
Athenian laws not otherwise preserved. The pseudo-Demosthenic speech AgainstNeaera, for instance, contains a law on adultery which is not otherwise attested...
the speech AgainstNeaera, we know that an alleged moichos was imprisoned based on a father's right to punish moicheia committed against his daughter...
University of Oklahoma. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-8061-3143-6. "Demosthenes, AgainstNeaera, section 43". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-15. The Athenian...
identified as Apollodorus himself. Apollodorus' final preserved speech is AgainstNeaera, which dates to between 343 and 340 BCE, after which we know nothing...
to demonstrate that Stephanos was guilty of giving false testimony. AgainstNeaera Pseudo-Demosthenes MacDowell 2009, pp. 119–120 Kapparis 1999, pp. 49–50...
edition) as well as by the lawyer Apollodorus in his prosecution speech "AgainstNeaera". Both of these sources maintain that hetairai were grouped in with...
Nannium the Elder. Also known as Aix ('the goat'). Neaera (Νέαιρα) 4th century BC See AgainstNeaera and Nicarete of Corinth. Nicarete (Νικαρέτη), of Megara...
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attributed to the following individuals: Evadne, a daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and...
goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetia, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them...
the latter's death. Theiodamas of Lydia, father of Dresaeus by the nymph Neaera. His son was a defender of Troy in the Trojan War and was killed by Polypoetes...
played America and Europe on the Hell on Earth Tour, alongside Sworn Enemy, Neaera, Waking the Cadaver, War of Ages, Thy Will Be Done and War from a Harlots...
Nacoleia Nais Laconia wife of Silenus Neaera Thrace wife of the river-god Strymon, and mother of Evadne Neaera Lydia mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas...
Channel 4, but released in cinemas prior to the broadcast. 1985 Turtle Diary Neaera Duncan 1987 Beyond Therapy Charlotte Wallace 1988 Business as Usual Babs...
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