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Iaera

Goddess

In Greek mythology, Iaera or Iaira (Ancient Greek: Ἴαιρα, lit. 'the honeyed' or '"honey-sweet') or Jaera was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. 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.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“Nesaea and Speio and Thoë and ox-eyed Halië, and Cymothoë and Actaeä and Limnoreia, and Melite and Iaera and Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto and Pherousa and Dynamene, and Dexamene and Amphinone and Callianeira,”
Il. 18.40–44

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Reference material remains distinct from the poem’s assertions. Characters who share a name retain separate pages.