#athenadora of attica

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Good Athenadora of Attica, wife of Thaumasius, filled with God's influence. She bore children and nursed them when they were infants. Earth took this young mother and keeps her, though the children need her milk.

epitaph on the grave of an Athenian woman during the Christian period, sourced from Women’s Life in Greece and Rome, Mary L Lefkowitz and Maureen B Fant, third edition