Joseph Campbell was an American writer and a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion with his work covering many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
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Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
Starring as Mythologist
(6 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Masks of Eternity (Jun 26, 1988)
- Episode 1x05: Love and the Goddess (Jun 25, 1988)
- Episode 1x04: Sacrifice and Bliss (Jun 24, 1988)
- Episode 1x03: The First Storytellers (Jun 23, 1988)
- Episode 1x02: The Message of the Myth (Jun 22, 1988)
- Episode 1x01: The Hero's Adventure (Jun 21, 1988)