Historical Atlas of the World Volume Pt1

By Joseph Campbell

Book Overview

Joseph Cambell's multivolume Historical Atals of World Mythology, his magnum opus, marks the culmination of his brilliant career as scholar, writer, teacher, and one of the foremost interreters of our sacred traditions. Campbell describe his work as an attempt to tell humankind's "One Great Story"-our saga of spiritual awakening and the subsequent development of the many different mythological perspectives that have shaped us throughtout time. His central theme is that our seemingly disparate spiritual traditions are neither discrete nor unique, but rather each is simply an "ethnic manifestation" of one or another of those "elemental ideals" that have forever transfixed the human psyche. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060551488
• ISBN13: 9780060551483
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Harper and Row
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.1" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Best historical overview we have to date about this period

Book came in the condition described, was well packaged, and arrived in a timely manner. For those interested in the historical and mythological journey of modern man this will provide one many opportunities to explore. Part of series of 5 books providing a historical overview of the development of mankind with anthropological and mythological patterns.