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- figures. Kourotrophos was also the name of a goddess or goddesses worshiped independently in shrines of their own. For example, Kourotrophos was a deity...
- the epithet "Kourotrophos". Kourotrophos was the name of an old goddess who was subordinate to Ge. Dieterich believed that Kourotrophos and Potnia theron...
- been found in the cargo of transport ships. Dea Gravida is similar to kourotrophos figures. (Gr****: κουροτρόφος, "child nurturer"). These figures are typically...
- gods). Among the Gr****s, T.H. Price notes that the nurturing power of Kourotrophos might be invoked in sacrifices and recorded in inscription, without specifically...
- covered. In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshipping the "Kourotrophos", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and...
- Kessler-Dimini, Elizabeth. 2008. "Tradition and Transmission: Hermes Kourotrophos in Nea Paphos, Cyprus." In Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian...
- one of the best attested facets of his pan****enic cult persona. As a kourotrophos, Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children, and he...
- Zeus; her worship existed primarily outside of the polis, thoughKourotrophos was venerated in Athens. Helios Ἥλιος The sun and its god. He is the...
- stretches to the Nike bastion, Pausanias also locates shrines to Ge Kourotrophos and Demeter Chloe. Here some pottery fragments and figurines ****ociated...
- as insufficiently evidenced. Walter Burkert notices that the ancient Kourotrophos figure is almost absent in Crete, and the nomination Mother Goddess was...