Jules Cashford
Jules Cashford studied classics at school, read philosophy at St. Andrews and then did postgraduate research in literature at Cambridge on a Carnegie Fellowship. For some years she was a tutor in Tragedy for Trinity College. She is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychologists, studied biofeedback and meditation with Max Cade, and lectures on Mythology. With Anne Baring, she is co-author of The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Penguin Books, 1993. She translated The Homeric Hymns, Penguin Classics, 2001, and is author of The Moon: Symbol of Transformation, Cassell Illustrated, 2003, The Mysteries of Osiris, 2010, Atalanta, and a Retelling, with illustrations from the 16th century, of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival for Younger Readers. With Kingfisher Art Productions she has made two films on Jan van Eyck for St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, and three films on ‘Gaia’ for the School of Myth, Dartington: Gaia, Mother Goddess Earth in Ancient Greece; the Eleusinian Mysteries; and the Return of Gaia.