Re: "Da Vinci" Debunking

Agreed she is not tree-hugging, but all of her novels (yes the Theseus
series is part of them) have the underlying Mother Goddess is primal theme
to them.

Thanks,

James Spinti
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Eisenbrauns, Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrence Lockyer [mailto:lockyert@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:04 AM
> To: CLASSICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Da Vinci" Debunking
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, David Lupher wrote
>
> : I gather it also presents a very skewed picture of
> : Greco-Roman paganism, offering it as a kind of
> : Never-Never-Land of woman-friendly, tree-hugging
> : values overthrown by the evil Constantine and his
> : goons.
>
> to which Bradley Skeen responded
>
> : How is this substanitally differnt from the view of antiquity
> : presented by Robert Graves, Maria Gimbutas, Carl Jung,
> : or Joseph Campbell?
> :
> : What it seems to that all of this stems from is a misundertanding
> : of the Romatic fantasy of a bucolic golden age (in Keats, Goethe,
> : etc. which served as an ideological basis for the criticism of the
> : enlightenment) confused with fact.
>
> and James Spinti added
>
> : Don't forget Mary Renault!
>
> I'm relying on imperfect memory here, but I'm assuming JS is
> referring to
> the narrative of religious and cultural change in Renault's
> Theseus novels
> (esp. *The King Must Die*).  While there is no doubt that
> Renault writes of
> a "matriarchal" system in (gradually losing) conflict with a
> "patriarchal",
> I'd hardly describe her version of the former as one of "tree-hugging
> values";  indeed, quite the opposite.
>
>
> Terrence Lockyer
> Johannesburg, South Africa
>