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