concept
Kourotrophos
Nurse of Youth
also: Κουροτρόφε, Κουροτρόφος
A cult title, 'Rearer of the Young,' applied to several Greek goddesses (among them Artemis, Hecate, and Ge) who guard children and young people through the passage to adulthood; Epigram XII invokes her to keep a young woman from young men's beds.
Reading notes
- The Epigrams of Homer §12 Nurse of Youth
Kourotrophos, 'Rearer of the Young,' a cult title applied to several Greek goddesses (among them Artemis, Hecate, and Ge) who guard the young through the passage to adulthood.