HEKATE is best known as the mistress of threatening, restless ghosts because Greek and Roman literature emphasized this sensational aspect of her personality beginning in the fifth century BCE (e.g., Euripides Helen 569–570). This role led to...

A goddess in Greek mythology who originally hailed from Asia Minor (Caria). She does not appear in Homer. She is a chthonic deity, the mistress of all sorts of nocturnal nastiness, including necromancy. Her ghostly aspect is indicated in her epithet...

Hecate, Hekate (Hekátê, Hekátē), or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia,[1] the only region where theophoric names are attested[2], and where...

Pierre Jean Jouve. Hecate and Vagadu. Trans. Lydia Davis. Marlboro/ Northwestern Univ. Press, 1997. 145 and 175 pp. $24.95 each. Known primarily as a poet and essayist, Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) wrote his only novels between 1925 and 1935. In Hecate and...

During the 1890s, women in Queensland finally decided they were not stopping until they got suffrage. By 1893, New Zealand women were enfranchised, and in 1894 South Australia became the first to give women the vote in State elections. Many took to heart...