death_date birth_date article_title name occupation
4th century bc 4th century bc neaira -lrb- hetaera -rrb-
 neaira hetaera
neaira -lrb- hetaera -rrb-

neaira -lrb- ; -rrb- , also neaera -lrb- -rrb- , was a hetaera who lived in the 4th century bc in ancient greece ; there are no reliable data about the exact dates of her birth and death .
she was brought to trial in the mid-fourth century bc , probably between 343 and 340bc .
although the claims submitted against neaira are likely to be heavily biased and can not be independently confirmed , the speech provides more details than about any other prostitute of antiquity , and consequently a great deal of information about sex trade in the ancient greek city-states -lrb- poleis -rrb- .
the main source of our knowledge about neaira is the speech made against her by apollodorus , part of the demosthenic corpus which survives as his 59th speech , known as `` apollodorus against neaira '' .
the speech is not generally accepted as being authored by demosthenes , however , and is often attributed to a pseudo-demosthenes .
grace macurdy , for instance , describes the speech as characteristic of the `` pseudo-demosthenic speeches composed for , and possibly by , an athenian citizen called apollodorus '' .
