Mary G Galvin Phd: 5 books

Life, Death and Artemis is a multi volume series examining the cult of Artemis based on the evidence left to us by those who lived and died during the eras where belief in Artemis and her rites was prevalent. The series examines all facets of her worship, the geographic domain where her worship was...

This is an Academic essay exploring the meaning of the Ancient Greek myth regarding Proitos' Daughters. Following in the footsteps of myth is always an interesting challenge. How much is based on fact? How much is fiction? What message was the storyteller trying to convey? Recent times have yielded...

The ancestors of western society had a belief system that satisfied both the needs of society and the individual need for spiritual satisfaction. The 'Life, Death and Artemis' series is an in-depth academic study of one part of that belief system, embodied in the Goddess Artemis, a member of the Greek...

This is the second volume in the series 'Life, Death & Artemis'. In this volume the myriad practices of Artemis' worship are placed within the framework of religion as proposed by Roy Rapport, religious anthropologist. In so doing this enables parallels to be drawn with Artemis as the representation...

This third volume of the series 'Life, Death and Artemis' addresses the Influence of Artemis (the active role of Artemis): This volume starts with a short outline of the theory behind life-cycle rites based upon the theories of social anthropologist Van Gennep. This is followed by evidence of rites...