Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

Emilie Kutash

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Bloomsbury Academic
20 May 2021

Classical history & classical civilisation; Ancient religions & mythologies; Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of philosophy and literature? Emilie Kutash explores these questions, beginning from the premise that cultural memory, a collective cultural and social phenomenon, can last thousands of years.

Kutash demonstrates a continuing practice of interpreting and allegorizing ancient myths, tracing these goddesses of archaic origin through history. Chapters follow the goddesses from their ancient near eastern prototypes, to their place in the epic poetry, drama and hymns of classical Greece, to their appearance in Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, Medieval allegory, and their association with Christendom.

Finally, Kutash considers how goddesses were made into Jungian archetypes, and how some contemporary feminists made them a counterfoil to male divinity, thereby addressing the continued role of goddesses in perpetuating gender binaries.

By: Emilie Kutash
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9780567697394
ISBN 10: 0567697398
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 May 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Emilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.

Reviews for Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

This book is powerful and engaging. Its range of expertise is striking, not only in relation to primary texts and archaeological findings, but also in its understanding and presentation of the complex secondary literature. Its ability to bring archaeological evidence, history, politics, religion, and theology into mutual conversation is compelling and its capacity to evaluate such evidence in a fair and balanced way is attractive throughout. * Kevin Corrigan, Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Emory University, USA * Emilie Kutash has composed, with passion and erudition, a cultural portrait of female divinity in the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean throughout the ages. * Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Associate Professor in Classics, Florida State University, USA *