Glycera (given name)

Glycera (Γλυκέρα) (the sweet one) was a popular name often used for Hellenistic hetaerae, held by:


 * 1) The daughter of Thalassis and the mistress of Harpalus and Menander. (Athen. xiii. pp. 586, 595, 605, &c.)
 * 2) The mistress of Pausias, born in Sicyon.
 * 3) A favourite of Horace(?). (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19.29.)
 * 4) Nominally, Alcibiades's sexual partner in Caracci's engravings for I Modi.