The Power of Myth
By: Joseph Campbell, with Bill Moyers.
Contributors: Moyers, Bill D.; Flowers, Betty Sue, ed.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday; Broadway
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Campbell, Joseph,  -- 1904-   -- Interviews; Myth; Religion historians  -- United States  -- Interviews
First sentence: Why myths?
Description: Joseph Campbell, who died on October 31, 1987, was the world's foremost authority on mythology, a preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher whose work has had a profound influence on millions.  To him, mythology was "the song of the universe, the music of the spheres."

In The Power of Myth, he and distinguished journalist Bill Moyers offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit in conversations that range from modern marriage ("Marriage is a relationship.  When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship") to virgin births, from savior figures to heroic figures such as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars ("...By overcoming the dark passions, the hero symbolizes our ability to control the irrational savages within us.")

The Power of Myth is a great summing up of Joseph Campbell's work, sure to stand alongside his two celebrated classics The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God and his recent The Atlas of World Mythology.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's Note
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction by Bill Moyers
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: Myth and the Modern World
pagenum: 3; label: II
title: The Journey Inward
pagenum: 37; label: III
title: The First Storytellers
pagenum: 69; label: IV
title: Sacrifice and Bliss
pagenum: 91; label: V
title: The Hero's Adventure
pagenum: 123; label: VI
title: The Gift of the Goddess
pagenum: 165; label: VII
title: Tales of Love and Marriage
pagenum: 185; label: VIII
title: Masks of Eternity
pagenum: 207; title: Index
pagenum: 232; title: Photo Credits
pagenum: 235