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Jules Cashford
Jules Cashford read philosophy at St. Andrews and did post-graduate research in literature at Cambridge, on a Carnegie Fellowship, studying Tragedy, particularly in the novels of Joseph Conrad. She was a Supervisor in Tragedy and the Novel at Trinity College, Cambridge for some years. She studied... show more

Jules Cashford read philosophy at St. Andrews and did post-graduate research in literature at Cambridge, on a Carnegie Fellowship, studying Tragedy, particularly in the novels of Joseph Conrad. She was a Supervisor in Tragedy and the Novel at Trinity College, Cambridge for some years. She studied Psychology of Consciousness with Max Cade, and lectured on Mythology at Birkbeck College of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London, in a course called 'Before Philosophy.' She trained as a Jungian Analyst with the Association of Jungian Analysts in London, and is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP). She is the co-author, with Anne Baring, of The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Penguin 1993) (still in print, translated into Spanish and Japanese). She is author of The Moon: Myth and Image (Cassell Illustrated, UK, 2003 and 4Walls8Windows, US, translated into German and Chinese, and Japanese translation forthcoming). She translated The Homeric Hymns from the Greek for Penguin Classics (2003). She wrote two books for children, The Myth of Isis and Osiris, and Theseus and the Minotaur (Barefoot and Shambhala, 1992 and 1994). She has contributed chapters and articles to various books, newspapers and journals, including 'Joseph Campbell and the Grail Myth,' in John Matthews, ed., The Household of the Grail; 'Homo Duplex: An Epilogue to Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"', Atalanta Ediciones, Girona, 2005; 'Ímagining Eternity: Weaving "the heaven's embroidered cloths,"' in Cosmos and Psyche, ed., Nicholas Campion, Floris Books, 2006. Her latest book, El Mito de Osiris, an exploration of the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries at Abydos, has just come out in Spanish with Atalanta Ediciones, Girona, 2010. With Kingfisher Art Productions, she made two films exploring the symbolism of the Early Renaissance Painter Jan van Eyck: The Mystery of Jan van Eyck, and The Mystic Lamb or the Ghent Altarpiece, which have been translated into Dutch, German, French and Japanese, with Spanish forthcoming. These dvds are for sale at www.Kingfisherartsproductions.com. She now writes and lectures on Myth, Literature and Art(see Mythicimagination.info and the Schumacher College, Dartington), and works with the Gaia Foundation in London. (See www.julescashford.com)
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Musings of a Book Addict
Musings of a Book Addict rated it 12 years ago
This book changed my life. I read it when it first came out and I have just re-read it again, 20 years later. While many people like to deny the sources quoted in this book about the goddess-worshipping that may or may not have happened in Neolithic time, that is just a small aspect of this book and...
Syahira's Literary Obsession
Syahira's Literary Obsession rated it 12 years ago
There are two well-known Hymns in Homeric Hymns collection which are Hymns for Demeter and Apollo which are two very different story from one another. There are also incoherent pieces of poems which are included in my copy of Homeric Hymns but I would rather prefer reading it accompanied with notes....
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