kourotrophos

plural kourotrophoi

1. archaeologyAny of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.

1. Greekhuman sciencesdivine 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’.

   2012, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 249

2. Greekhuman sciencesAncient Greek goddess whose functions pertained to child-rearing