Goddess and the Warrior : The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion

ISBN-13: 9780415218290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 176 str.

Nanno Marinatos

Opis

How does Greek religion receive and transform the concept of the naked goddess and the mistress of animals? Naked goddesses can take on various forms: mistresses of animals, seductresses, fertility figures, even monsters. Nudity, however, has a consistent message: power. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and early Greece, tracing the path and transformation of these magical symbols from their place of origin to Crete and the mainland. The Goddess and the Warrior presents an analysis of the role of the naked goddess and the mistress of the animals within Greek religion.

Spis treści

1 The naked goddess and Mistress of Animals in the Near East and Greece 2 Circe as the legacy of the naked goddess in Greek myth 3 Gorgo: adversary and patroness of men 4 Patron goddesses and male identity 5 The Mistress of Animals—Artemis, Gorgo and the iconography of violence: initiation and warrior ideology 6 The Aegean Mistress of Animals and the goddess with the upraised arms

O autorze

Marinatos, Nanno