Neaira is a young woman from Thebe.

She is tall and thin. Her hair is dark blonde and her eyes are bright.

She is a hetaera so, she is well-readed and can participate in the political life in the town. She left the brodel she grew up and she wants now to see world and make people see that her town can be a good ally.

When she was a child she was sold to a madame, who taught her how to be a good hetaera. She doesn't know anything about her family.

She only cares about the present, because she thinks that, in the future, she can die of thisis ou marry a rich man when she can't work.