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