Breastfeeding Animals and Other Wild “Nurses” in Greek and Roman Mythology
<p>Both literary and material evidence strongly suggest that wet and dry nurses played a central role within the ancient world. A peculiar declination of the figure of the Greek and Roman wet-nurse are animal nurses, recalled by both literary texts and iconography. There are plenty of ancient...
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Ediciones Complutense
2016-12-01
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Online Access: | http://revistasculturales.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/article/view/53745 |