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—σκάφη ... λίκνον,—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 Herodotus— Orestes’ Nurse—Nurse in Medea—in Trachiniae—in Hippolytus— Aristophanes’ πιστὴ, τροφός—Nurse’s Care Shown in Samia—in Real Life—Instances of Unkindness Few—Plutarch—Stobaeus— Aristophanes—Chattering and Tippling Propensities— Metaphors of Nurse 16 CHAPTER IV. NURSERY TALES AND LULLABIES. 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— Alphito—Empusa—Strigla—Wolf—Example from Theocritus—from Callimachus—Mormo—Bad Effects of these Tales—Protreptic Tales—Subject Matter—Censorship by Plato and Aristotle— Immoral effects of Stories about the Gods—Hermes—Hercules— Odysseus—Theseus and Ariadne—Magic Rings—Rings of Gyges— Tales Told for Comfort and Consolation—Festival of the Oschophoria—Style—Purpose—Aesopic Tales—Libyan—Cyprian— Sybaritic—Traces of Lullabies—Metrical Humming—Peculiar Tune—Imitations of Lullabies—Lullaby of Alcmena—Lament of Danae—Chorus in Philoctetes—in Orestes 34 CHAPTER V. MONUMENTS TO THE NURSE. 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 Evidence of Monuments—Theocritus— Anthology—Callimachus 45 BIBLIOGRAPHY. I. TEXTS OF SOURCES 49 II. SECONDARY AUTHORITIES 50 CHAPTER I TERMS USED FOR NURSE