There are many books on Hekate now, but Stephen Ronan’s The Goddess Hekate still occupies a distinctive place. It is not a modern devotional book, not a spell book, and not a general beginner’s introduction in the usual Pagan sense. It is a compact, serious and source-heavy study of Hekate’s place in ancient religion, philosophy and magical thought, with particular attention to the Chaldean and Neoplatonic material.