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Ancient goddesses : the myths and the evidence / editors, Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris.

Contributor(s): Goodison, Lucy | Morris, Christine
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0299163202 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299163245 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Goddesses -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities | Goddesses -- Europe, Northern | Europe, Northern -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 291.2/114/0901 LOC classification: BL473.5 | .A53 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-218) and index.
Contents:
Exploring female divinity: from modern myths to ancient evidence / Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris -- Rethinking figurines: a critical view from archaeology of Gimbutas, the "goddess" and popular culture / Ruth Tringham and Margaret Conkey -- Twin peaks: the archaeologies of C̦atalhöyuk / Lynn Meskell -- Goddesses of the ancient near east 3000-1000 BC / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Goddesses in early Israelite religion / Karel van der Toorn -- The earliest goddesses of Egypt: divine mothers and cosmic bodies / Fekri A. Hassan -- Beyond the "great mother": the sacred world of the Minoans / Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris -- From Athena to Zeus: an A-Z guide to the origins of Greek goddesses / Mary E. Voyatzis -- God or goddess: the temple art of ancient Malta / Caroline Malone -- A "mother goddess" in north-west Europe c.4200-2500 BC? / Elizabeth Shee Twohig -- Some Gallo-British goddesses: iconography and meaning / Miranda J. Green.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring female divinity: from modern myths to ancient evidence / Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris -- Rethinking figurines: a critical view from archaeology of Gimbutas, the "goddess" and popular culture / Ruth Tringham and Margaret Conkey -- Twin peaks: the archaeologies of C̦atalhöyuk / Lynn Meskell -- Goddesses of the ancient near east 3000-1000 BC / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Goddesses in early Israelite religion / Karel van der Toorn -- The earliest goddesses of Egypt: divine mothers and cosmic bodies / Fekri A. Hassan -- Beyond the "great mother": the sacred world of the Minoans / Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris -- From Athena to Zeus: an A-Z guide to the origins of Greek goddesses / Mary E. Voyatzis -- God or goddess: the temple art of ancient Malta / Caroline Malone -- A "mother goddess" in north-west Europe c.4200-2500 BC? / Elizabeth Shee Twohig -- Some Gallo-British goddesses: iconography and meaning / Miranda J. Green.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-218) and index.

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