Transformations of Myth Through Time

By Joseph Campbell

Book Overview

The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060964634
• ISBN13: 9780060964634
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the best storytellers of our time!

This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. This is a great book written by a very engaging storyteller. Joseph Campbell describes the monomyth in his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces as embodying all the necessary elements of the hero's journey in the many myths in human history. Campbell discovered through extensive research that humankind shares a universal monomyth in its various religions...

A very good Read

I have read a number of Prof. Campbell's books, and found this to be one of the best. I enjoy very much his lectures on compact disk or DVD generally more than his written work, and this book is a compilation of lectures. Once you are familiar with some of his work, a particularly good read is his recent biography--A Fire in the Mind--excellent and organized insight to both his extraordinary life as well as his work and...

Thirteen essays of first level!

To read this book is a real proud . The multiple annotations and clever observations of this renowned master of the mythology make us transport immediately to this unusual universe He makes an amazing journey from the origins of the myth in the distant past to familiar European medieval legends . The fertile wisdom and powerful intelligence of this extraordinary thinker is a real invitation to enter and cross the line for...

This one also ties for the most important book I've read:

This was another of those synchronist events that happens in the form of the written word. Actually, I got ahold of these videos through my local library at a time when I was searching for questions instead of answers. This book is a tour de force of the mythological evolution of the human species. Campbell addresses what the elemantary ideas of myth are and how they present themselves uniformly throughout all cultures,...

Transformations of Myth Through Time is Must Read/See

Read this if you can't afford the tapes of this excellent PBS series (though it gets a little dry in some spots)! It is a (now deceased) esteemed archeologists's comparisons of myth with the actual excavations that he and other archeologists have made. He can validate or repudiate claims made by some religions that their version is the best, only, or earliest version, and can also show how some myths evolved from actual...