Goddesses
Subtitle: mysteries of the feminine divine
By: Joseph Campbell ; edited by Safron Rossi, PhD
Contributors: Rossi, Safron, editor
Series: Collected works
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781608681822
Subjects: Goddesses in literature; Greek Mythology; Goddesses; Religion
Description: "Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the great goddess; title: Myth and the feminine divine; title: The goddess in Paleolithic cultures; title: The goddess as nature; title: Goddess-mother creator: Neolithic and early Bronze age; title: Stone to copper: Anatolia and old Europe; title: Copper to bronze: Crete; title: Indo-European influx; title: Spears and languages; title: Burial mounds and suttee; title: Mycenae; title: Sumerian and Egyptian goddesses; title: The abstract field: rise of civilization; title: The Semitic influx: Sargon and Hammurabi; title: Myth of Isis and Osiris; title: Goddesses and gods of the Greek pantheon; title: Artemis; title: Apollo; title: Dionysus; title: Zeus; title: Ares; title: Athena; title: Iliad and Odyssey: return to the goddess; title: The judgment of Paris; title: The Iliad; title: The Odyssey; title: Mysteries of transformation; title: The once and future goddess; title: Mystery cults; title: The abduction of Persephone; title: Dionysus and the feminine divine; title: Amor: the feminine in European romance; title: Virgin Mary; title: The court of love; title: The renaissance of the goddess; title: Lift-off; title: Appendix: foreword to language of the goddess by Marija Gimbutas; title: Goddess studies: essential reading.