The Nurse in Greek Life

The helpless condition of infancy has always called for special offices to tide the child over the first years of life. These offices are performed either by mother or nurse. Am...

The relations between nurse and master were of that sacred character which cease not with death. Her sincere and tender affection was not only repaid during life by the master’s...

The importance of the nurse in Greek life may be judged from the fact that to her as well as to the mother was entrusted the early education of the child. Quintilian quoting Chr...

The Homeric poems deal wholly with the life of the upper classes. Hence we do not get from them a complete picture of how all classes lived. Even for the aristocrat therein desc...

Of the various terms employed in the literature to designate the nurse we shall speak only of four: τροφός, τιθήνη, μαῖα, and τίτθη. The first three are found in Homer[1] and th...

Duties to the Child—Bathing—Swaddling—First Nurture—Wet nurses—Food—Child in the Nurse’s Arms—Carrying of Child— Motion Profitable for Young Children—Moulding of Child’s Body—Cr...

The Nurse in Education—First Lessons Imparted by Means of Tales—Isolated Traces of Nursery Tales—Held in Contempt by the Greeks—Apotropaic Tales—Lamia—Gorgon—Mormolyke—Acco— Alp...

Form—Relief—Melitta—Malicha—τίτθη χρηστή—Name of Nurse Added—Her Master—Country—Simple Word τίτθη—Nurse represented on Monument of Mother—Shared in Grief of Family—Literary Evid...