06 Feb 2005
Crushing the Goddess

Spotted this yesterday, and was immediately struck by it's clarity. But being a 'Classics' piece, the author doesn't take her premise far enough north. The actions of the Christians described below were not limited to the Mediterranean area. Freyja was almost completely eradicated from the Nothern mythos: we are left with only vague echos of what must have been a thriving culture of the feminine in the Germanic areas.

Kathy Gaca, associate professor of classics at Vanderbilt University, delivered the Winslow Classics Lecture on Feb. 3 on the topic of "Eros and Fornication in Ancient Greek Society." Professor Gaca, author of The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, discussed the emergence of sexuality morality in the early Christian church under the apostle Paul and its relation to both Greek polytheism and philosophy.

(link) [Hamilton College]

via rogueclassicism

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