The nurse in Greek life
Book details
- Title
- The nurse in Greek life
- Author
- Demeter
- Publication year listed
- 1917
- Format
- Public domain eBook
- Reading access
- Free online reader; no registration required
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About this book
The nurse in Greek life
Author: Gorman, Mary Rosaria, Sister, 1880-
Year: 1917
TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 3 CHAPTER I. Terms Used for Nurse. 7 CHAPTER II. Social Status of the Nurse. From Homer to Herodotus — In Tragedy — In Athens — Foreign Nurses 9 CHAPTER III. The Nurse and the Family. 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 — Cradles — andtpij . Xixvoy, — Rocking of the Cradle — Amusements Furnished by the Nurse — Making of Toys — Balls — Rattles — Dolls — Dandling Fruit — Theatres — General Care Over Children — Keeping them Clean — Fondling Children — Pet Names — Humoring Child — Method of Finding Out What Children Want — Crying of Children — Amulets — Time Spent in Nursery. The Nurse and the Grown Daughter — Nausicaa’s Nurse — Tragic Nurse — Care of Young Maiden — Go-between in Maiden’s Love Affairs — Comfort and Consolation. The Nurse and the Grown Son — Eurycleia — Cilissa — Moschio’s Nurse — Old Nurse in Demosthenes — Esteem for Nurse. The Nurse in the Household — Washing — Eurycleia’s Duties — Duties Enumerated by Demeter — Tragedy — Comedy — General Characteristics of the Nurse — Eurycleia — Nurse in