Meaning of Kourotrophos | Babel Free

Definitions

1. divine epithet meaning "concerned with child-rearing"
   Greek
2. Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
3. Ancient Greek goddess whose functions pertained to child-rearing
   Greek

Examples

“Several Greek deities have a title *Kourotrophos, meaning ‘concerned with child-rearing’, but no Greek or Roman goddess is specifically concerned with lactation and there are few examples in art of the ‘nursing goddess’.”

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