Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You [Paperback]

Agapi Stassinopoulos (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 17, 2004

In ancient times, the Greeks created the gods and goddesses to represent the various personalities of human nature. In Gods and Goddesses in Love, Agapi Stassinopoulos tells the stories of the primary goddesses and gods, and how their myths can provide insight into your own romantic relationships.

Included are two fun and fascinating quizzes: one for women to determine their own dominant personality type and which goddess she most embodies; and a second that will help every woman understand more about the "god" she is involved with, or searching for.

In the book, the seven archetypal goddesses are portrayed in modern terms, highlighting not only each goddess's unique strengths but also the pitfalls or stumbling blocks she is likely to encounter in a relationship with her partner. Also included are interviews with real couples who reveal how they overcame obstacles to find true love.

For anyone who desires the self-knowledge and empowerment to find their ideal other, Gods and Goddesses in Love is an uplifting, instructive, and enlightening guide for achieving greater fulfillment in love.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"Three thousand years ago, my Greek ancestors tried to identify the forces playing themselves out in human nature and created the eight gods and seven goddesses of Olympus," begins Stassinopoulos in this follow-up to her Conversations with the Goddesses. Here she sketches seven human personality types based on the traits of the famous ladies of Olympus—Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hera, Hestia and Persephone. To help readers discover which goddess they most embody, Stassinopoulos offers a 12-question quiz that could have come straight from the pages of Cosmo; there’s a similar quiz designed to help them figure out which god their man most resembles. A Demeter woman, Stassinopoulos writes, "knows mothering as the most honorable occupation for a woman" and would pair well with a Poseidon man, while a Hestia lady is "centered and a great listener," but might need to be drawn out of her shell by a Hermes man. A native of Greece (and, incidentally, the sister of political commentator Arianna Huffington), Stassinopoulos capably relates the deities’ lives to that of contemporary women. But finding an absolute match among the broadly drawn goddesses is difficult and only cursorily addressed. Stassinopoulos’s prose can be both hackneyed and awkward, but her examples of real life couples (e.g. "Elaine and Mike: Opening the Channels of Communication") ground the book’s flights of poetic and mythic fancy.
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Review

Deepak Chopra author of Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire The Humanness of Mars and Venus is brought to life by this insightful guide....Stassinopoulos helps men and women gain value as they claim the power of the archetypes in themselves so they can enjoy deeper and more meaningful relationships.

Marianne Williamson author of Everyday Grace Agapi Stassinopoulos brings the Greek goddesses alive. She helps them speak from deep within the heart of the universe, telling us what we need to know to be the women we want to be, attracting the relationships we want to have.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books (August 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074347094X
• ISBN-13: 978-0743470940
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #910,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What an inspiring angle, August 22, 2004

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Soph (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You (Paperback)

I fell into this book by "accident", I am not someone who has been very intersetd in Gods and Goddesses. This book found its way to me and I discovered such valuable information about myself and my husband. The author is genuine and inspiring. It was a "happy accident" for this book to fall in my lap.
I reccommend it to those that already have a relationship to deepen what you have and to those who are not in a relationship as a way to create a fulfilling one. Great read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profound, Fun and Transformational, September 2, 2004

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Debbie Robins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You (Paperback)

Gods and Goddesses in Love by Agapi Stassinopoulos is a dream read. Informative, honest, fun, sexy and transformational, I have been using what I learned about the archtypes literally each and every day. Agapi helped me understand my marriage in a way I had not imagined. She helped me understand other people's relationship both personal and celebrity. She also invoked in me a new sense of who I am, all the aspects combined! and an awareness of how to use my strength, my wisdom, my feminine, my nurturer, my creativity, my magic to make all my dreams come true. Her willingness to share her own story was inspirational. This book is a gem. And she is a true goddess.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Pantheon of Passion, November 16, 2004

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Pamela J. Smith "mythworks.net" (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You (Paperback)

Agapi's book is both inspiring and informative. Having studied mythology for many years, I found new fun aspects of the gods and goddesses to contemplate and perhaps even to incorporate. Desire, love, and passion are marvelously complex; Agapi's approach offers useful tools of awareness for self and others, plus ways to enhance and enrich the heavenly experience of being In Love. It's my new favourite gift for birthdays, engagements, and weddings.