Paidotrophos

Paidotrophos (ancient Greek Παιδοτρόφος "nourishing the children, mother") is an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis in the Messenian city of Korone.

Pausanias reports that Artemis Paidotrophos owned a temple in the city in addition to Dionysus and Asclepius. [1]

Literature

Otto Höfer: Paidotrophos. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1253 (digitized version).
Bernhard Kruse: Paidotrophos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE). Volume XVIII, 2, Stuttgart 1942, Col. 2396.

Remarks
Pausanias 4, 34, 6.

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