Mount Sipylus in the context of "Dioxippe"

Magnesia ad Sipylum (Greek: Mαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Σιπύλῳ or Mαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Σιπύλου; modern Manisa, Turkey) was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna (now İzmir) on the river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Mount Sipylus. The city should not be confused with its older neighbor, Magnesia on the Maeander, both founded by colonists from the Greek region of Magnesia.

Manisa (Turkish pronunciation: [maˈnisa]) is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province, lying approximately 40 km northeast of the major city of İzmir. The city forms the urban part of the districts Şehzadeler and Yunusemre, with a population of 385,452 in 2022.

Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in quantity and variety of agricultural production. In fact, İzmir's proximity also adds a particular dimension to all aspects of life's pace in Manisa in the form of a dense traffic of daily commuters between the two cities, separated as they are by a half-hour drive served by a fine six-lane highway nevertheless requiring attention at all times due to its curves and the rapid ascent (sea-level to more than 500 meters at Sabuncubeli Pass) across Mount Sipylus's mythic scenery.

Neaera (/niˈɪərə/; Ancient Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira (/niˈaɪrə/), is the name of multiple female characters in Greek mythology:

• Neaera, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.
• Neaera or Neera, a Nereid, and possible mother of Absyrtus by King Aeetes of Colchis. Also mistakenly mentioned in some modern retellings of the myth of Nerites.
• Neaera, a lover of Xanthus (Scamander).
• Neaera, a nymph who became the mother of Aegle by Zeus.
• Neaera, a nymph of Thrinacia, mother of Lampetia and Phaethusa by Helios.
• Neaera, a nymph of Mount Sipylus in Lydia, mother of Dresaeus by Theiodamas.
• Neaera, mother of Evadne by Strymon.
• Neaera, a daughter of Pereus, mother of Auge, Cepheus, and Lycurgus by Aleus. In another version, she married Autolycus.
• Neaera, a daughter of Autolycus, mother of Hippothous, eventually killed herself after hearing of the death of her son.
• Neaera, one of the Niobids.
• Neaera of Lemnos, a friend of Eurynome in whose guise Pheme came to warn Eurynome of her husband's infidelity.
• Neaera, possibly the mother of Triptolemus by Celeus.