Kurotrophos
Kurotrophos ( Greek Κουροτρόφος Kourotrophos , "nourishing boys") is an epicreading of various deities from Greek mythology .
Deities endowed with the epithet Kurotrophos were viewed as a manifestation of motherhood or as a symbol of the wet nurse and accordingly worshiped in cult acts, rites and sacrifices. Because of their properties, the epithet was also used to name the personifications of the rivers , and later the nymphs . As a stand-alone name, Kurotrophos always means Hekate , Gaia or Aphrodite .
The following deities were worshiped as Kurotrophos:
- Gaia
- Artemis
- Hecate
- Brimo
- Leto
- Demeter
- Hestia
- Aphrodite
- Eirene
- Apollo
- the rivers
- the nymphs
- Ruminia
- Penia
- Elpis
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Kurotrophos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 1628-1633 ( digitized ).
- Bruno Prehn : Kurotrophos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Col. 2215 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Theodora Hadzisteliou Price: Kourotrophos: cults and representations of the Greek nursing deities . Brill Archive, 1978. ISBN 9004052518
