{"product_id":"lost-goddesses-of-early-greece-isbn-9780807013434","title":"Lost Goddesses of Early Greece","description":"For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In \u003ci\u003eLost Goddesses of Early Greece\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature.\"Spretnak's treatment of the myths is most  impressive.\" --Walter Burkert, author of \u003ci\u003eGreek  Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charlene Spretnak has succeeded extremely well in presenting pure characterizations of the Old European goddesses as they were revered for millennia, long before the Indo-European elements were imposed to create Olympian mythology.\" --Marija Gimbutas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language of the Goddess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A truly beautiful book. With it Charlene Spretnak has raised new and important questions about the power of myth.\" --Merlin Stone, author of \u003ci\u003eAncient Mirrors of Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is essential...both academically accurate and a personal medium of passage.\" --\u003ci\u003eCoEvolution Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charlene Spretnak rediscovers the goddesses' early significance and in fascinating portraits restores them to their original glory.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A basic text of the goddess movement that has spread through feminist and ecological circles for a decade.\" --\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A poetic revelation of pre-Hellenic mythology.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003eCharlene Spretnak  is the author of several books that proposed a \"map of the terrain\"  and an engagement with various emergent social movements, intellectual      orientations, and largely unexplored subjects. She has helped to  create an      eco-social frame of reference and vision in the areas of social  criticism,      cultural history, philosophy, and religion and spirituality. Since  the mid-1980s,      all of her books have been an engagement with modernity, its  discontents,      and the corrective efforts that are arising. She is a co-founder of  the Green      Party movement in the United States and is a professor of philosophy  and religion  at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a graduate institute  in  San Francisco. In 2006 Charlene Spretnak was named by the British  government's Environment Department as one of the \"100 Eco-Heroes of All  Time.\"","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303952830693,"sku":"NP9780807013434","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807013434.jpg?v=1767731822","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lost-goddesses-of-early-greece-isbn-9780807013434","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}