- 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...
- 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...
-
successful in her role
protecting and
nurturing a hero (the
theme of
kourotrophos), but her role in
succoring deities is
emphatically repeated by Homer...
-
seven times upon Brimo, "she who
haunts the night, the
Nursing Mother [
Kourotrophos]. In
black weed and
murky gloom she dwells,
Queen of the Dead". The Thessalian...
- vase-painting.
Though Etruscans preferred to show the
goddess as a
nurturer (
Kourotrophos)
rather than an
abductor of
young men, the late
Archaic sculptural acroterion...
- Kessler-Dimini, Elizabeth. 2008. "Tradition and Transmission:
Hermes Kourotrophos in Nea Paphos, Cyprus." In
Antiquity in Antiquity:
Jewish and Christian...
