Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory 9780567697400, 9780567697394, 9780567697417

Table of contents :
1. Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes”
2. Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature
3. The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity
4. Mother, Virgin, Erotic Temptress, and Cosmic Womb
5. Dualism and the Mediating Goddess
6. “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities
7. Naming the goddesses Geopolitics and the Intertanslsation of names
8. Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah: Are they Hebrew Goddesses?
9. Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear?
10. Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess
11. Goddesses, Gender Binaries and Twentieth Century Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists
13. The Goddess Interpreted
Bibliography
Index

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