Introduction: "To whom death never comes"
Goddess prototypes : the classical literature
The goddesses of philosophy : the literature of later antiquity
Virgin, erotic temptress, mother and cosmic womb
Dualism and the mediating goddess
"The goddess of the triple ways" : triads and trinities
Naming the goddesses geopolitics and the intertranslation of names
Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah : are they Hebrew goddesses?
Did Christianity make the goddess disappear?
Personifying nature and wisdom : the medieval and early modern goddess
New mythologies of gender : feminists, psychoanalysts, epistemologists
The goddess interpreted.