Celestial Motherhood A Matricentric Approach to the Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy of Ancient Greece Through the Cognitive Science of Religion

Amy Arden

This thesis considers representations of maternal figures in the catasterism mythology of ancient Greece, through an examination of the archaeoastronomy and the cultural astronomy of the Archaic through Hellenistic periods (c. 750 – 30 BCE) in ancient Greece. The relative absence of primary source l