From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- nurturing the young
Meaning
Hecate, Artemis, and Demeter nurture the young, and Peace receives the same active epithet. Its application to Peace is especially useful: safe social conditions can foster children without Peace being narrated as their biological mother. Demeter can be both young-nurturing and maiden in one line, so the title should not be turned into an exclusive life-stage classification.
Places to read
- Hymn I · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κουροτρόφε; κουροτρόφον; κουροτρόφος
Occurrence inventory
6 in total. I.8; XII.8; XIX.22; XXXVI.8; XL.2; XL.13