Lucy Goodison
Encyclopedia
Dr. Lucy Goodison is an archeologist and author from Dorset in the United Kingdom. She is a leading expert in Minoan
tomb architecture and sacred practices, and has also written numerous general interest books on mythology
, personal and social change
.
Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans...
tomb architecture and sacred practices, and has also written numerous general interest books on mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
, personal and social change
Social change
Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. It may refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by dialectical or evolutionary means. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic...
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Major publications
- In Our Own Hands: A Book of Self-Help Therapy (with Sheila Ernst, 1981) (also published in French, German, and Danish)
- Death, Women, and the Sun: Symbolism of Regeneration in Early Aegean Religion (1989)
- Moving Heaven and Earth: Sexuality, Spirituality and Social Change (1990)
- The Dreams of Women: Exploring and Interpreting Women's Dreams (1996) (also published in Spanish)
- (as editor, with Christine Morris) Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence (1998)
- Holy Trees and other Ecological Surprises (2010, Just Press)