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

Ancient Greece

Glycera (courtesan) Glycera () (the sweet one) was a 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 Si ...

- popular name often used for

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

hetaera A (; , ; . , ), Romanization of Greek, Latinized as ( ), was a type of highly educated female companion in ancient Greece who served as an artist, entertainer, and conversationalist. Historians have often classed them as courtesans, but th ...

e'', held by: **The daughter of Thalassis and the mistress of

Harpalus Harpalus (Greek: Ἅρπαλος), son of Machatas, was a Macedonian aristocrat and childhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Harpalus was repeatedly entrusted with official duties by Alexander and absconded with large su ...

and

Menander Menander (; ; c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek scriptwriter and the best-known representative of Athenian Ancient Greek comedy, New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the Cit ...

. (Athen. xiii. pp. 586, 595, 605, &c.) **The mistress of

Pausias Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon. Biography Pausias introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. His great merit appears to have lain in the better rendering of for ...

, born in

Sicyon Sicyon (; ; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. The ruins lie just west of th ...

. ** A favourite of

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

^(?). (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19.29.) ** Nominally,

Alcibiades Alcibiades (; 450–404 BC) was an Athenian statesman and general. The last of the Alcmaeonidae, he played a major role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician, but subsequently ...

sexual partner Sexual partners are people who engage in sexual activity together. The sexual partners may be in a committed relationship, either on an exclusive basis or not, or engage in the sexual activity on a casual basis. They may be on intimate terms ( ...

in Caracci's engravings for ''

I Modi ''I Modi'' (''The Ways''), also known as ''The Sixteen Pleasures'' or under the Latin title ''De omnibus Veneris Schematibus'', is a famous Erotic art, erotic book of the Italian Renaissance that had engravings of sexual scenes. The engravings ...

''.

Orthodox Christianity

Saint Glyceria Saint Glyceria (; died ca. 177 in Perinthus, Propontis) was a Roman virgin of the early church. According to Christian tradition, she was forced to pay tribute to a stone statue of Jupiter but it was destroyed while she stood before it. The virgin ...

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

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* Glyceria, Lukeria ( Гликерия, Лукерья) - popular Russian name before 1917 *

Glykeria Glykeria (born Glykeria Kotsoula, ; born 16 November 1953 in Agio Pnevma, Serres) is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus, while also gaining fame in Israel, France, Turkey, Spain, and England. Her career has spanned over 30 years and is m ...

(b. 1953) - Greek singer

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