Nicarete or Nicareta of

Megara Megara (; el, Μέγαρα, ) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, befo ...

( grc-gre, Νικαρέτη, ''Nikarétē'') was a

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

of the Megarian school, who flourished around . She is stated by Athenaeus to have been a hetaera of good family and education, and to have been a disciple of Stilpo.

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

states that she was Stilpo's mistress, though he had a wife.Diogenes Laërtius, ii. 114.

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* 4th-century BC Greek people Ancient Greek ethicists Ancient Greek women philosophers Ancient Megarians Hetairai Megarian philosophers 4th-century BC Greek women {{AncientGreece-philosopher-stub