Lucy Goodison

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Lucy Goodison (born in the 20th century) is a British archaeologist and author.

Life and research

Lucy Goodison put 1985 her dissertation ( Ph.D. ) at the University of London under the title Some aspects of religious symbolism in the Aegean area during the Bronze and early Iron Ages ago. She then worked as an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and is considered an "Independent Scholar" (private scholar). She wrote several books on mythology and religion with a focus on the Aegean . She is considered a specialist in the Minoan culture and its tomb architecture ( Crete , Mesara burial culture ) and symbolism .

On the work Death, Women, and the Sun , published by her in 1989. Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion thinks the Viennese reviewer Hans Schwabl can read out an "afterlife" from Jane Ellen Harrison . In her Moving Heaven and Earth , published in 1990, she states (pp. 118 and 120) that “although prehistoric Crete often served as an example of a matriarchal society, there is no evidence of this” and the fantasy about a golden age of matriarchy have more to do with “our needs and conflicts today than with Crete in the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. "

In 1998, together with Christine Morris, who works at Trinity College Dublin , she published the anthology Ancient Goddesses dealing with the subjects of the mother goddess and matriarchy . The Myths and the Evidence .

Fonts

  • Some aspects of religious symbolism in the Aegean area during the Bronze and early Iron Ages. University of London, 1985 (also dissertation).
  • Death, Women, and the Sun. Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London 1989.
  • Moving Heaven and Earth. Sexuality, Spirituality and Social Change. Women's Press, London 1990, ISBN 0-7043-5038-6 .
  • with Christine Morris (Ed.): Ancient Goddesses. The Myths and the Evidence. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin 1998, ISBN 0-299-16320-2 .
  • Perceptions of the Sun in Minoan Ritual. 2002, Paper, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
  • From tholos tomb to Throne Room: some considerations of dawn light and directionality in Minoan buildings. In: Gerald Cadogan (ed.): Knossos. Palace, City, state. (= British School at Athens studies ; 12). British School at Athens, London 2004, ISBN 0-904887-45-6 , pp. 339-350 ( JSTOR 40960792 ).
  • with Carlos Guarita: A new catalog of the Mesara-type tombs. 1. Why a new catalog? In: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (SMEA), Roma, Volume 47, 2005, pp. 171-212.
  • Holy Trees and other Ecological Surprises. Just Press, Bridport 2010, ISBN 978-1-907352-00-3 .

Reviews / reception

  • Hans Schwabl: Death, Women and the Sun. Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion by Lucy Goodison. In: Wiener Studien , Volume 106, 1993, pp. 280-282 ( JSTOR 24749128 ).
  • Tracey Cullen: Tracey Cullen, Lucy Goodison: Death, Women, and the Sun: Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion by Lucy Goodison (Review) . In: Journal of Field Archeology . 18, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 498-501. doi : 10.2307 / 530412 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Kathryn Rountree: The Politics of the Goddess. Feminist Spirituality and the Essentialism Debate. In: Social Analysis. The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice , Volume 43, No. 2, pp. 138-165, here p. 150. ( JSTOR 23166525 ).
  2. ^ The 103rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. In: American Journal of Archeology , Volume 106, No. 2, 2002, p. 302 ( JSTOR 4126245 ).
personal data
SURNAME Goodison, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century