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DOI: 10.5209/rev_geri.2016.v34.53745
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Animales amamantando y otras “nodrizas” salvajes en la mitología griega y romana

Abstract: 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 legends concerning abandoned children breastfed by animals, such as Romulus, Telephus, and Zeus. These breastfeeding animals can be ascribed to the category of the "adjuvant" that is central in the myths concerning the biogr… Show more

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