Glycera (given name)

Glycera, Glyceria (Ancient Greek: Γλυκέρα, Γλυκερία) ("the sweet one") - female name of Greek origin:

Ancient Greece

• Glycera (courtesan) - popular name often used for Hellenistic hetaerae, held by:
  • The daughter of Thalassis and the mistress of Harpalus and Menander. (Athen. xiii. pp. 586, 595, 605, &c.)
  • The mistress of Pausias, born in Sicyon.
  • A favourite of Horace^(?). (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19.29.)
  • Nominally, Alcibiades's sexual partner in Caracci's engravings for I Modi.

Orthodox Christianity

• Saint Glyceria of Heraclea (2nd century)
• Saint Glyceria of Novgorod (d. circa 1522) - Russian saint (ru)

Other

• Glyceria, Lukeria (Гликерия, Лукерья) - popular Russian name before 1917
• Glykeria (b. 1953) - Greek singer

See also

• Glycera (disambiguation)
• Glyceria, a genus of grasses