The Masks of God : Occidental Mythology Vol. 3 - Softcover

Campbell, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285636073 ISBN 13: 9780285636071

Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This third volume of Campbell's classic study of world mythologies covers the central myths that still inform the consciousness of the European West. Campbell traces these back to the cosmology built around the Levantine earth-goddess of the Bronze Age, changed but only partly suppressed by the patriarchal tribal invasions which shaped Judaic and Greek myth. He then examines the interplay of Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Islam and Christian Europe upon the matrix of ancient beliefs.

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"A monument of learning, wonder, and wisdom, daringly conceived and brilliantly written by a man who is at home in the Eastern and the Western universe of spirit.... In temporal span and spatial scope and in relevance to the needs of its own day, it is unexampled."
--Henry A. Murray, Harvard University

-A monument of learning, wonder, and wisdom, daringly conceived and brilliantly written by a man who is at home in the Eastern and the Western universe of spirit.... In temporal span and spatial scope and in relevance to the needs of its own day, it is unexampled.-
--Henry A. Murray, Harvard University

Review

One cannot but admire the width and diversity of Joseph Campbell's scholarship. --'New Statesman'

Inspired passages connecting with the luminously permament, beyond gender, beyond time. --'The Guardian'

An extremely thorough contribution to our knowledge of the origins of so many of the legends, themes and symbols which are integral to modern culture, both Eastern and Western... A rewarding and informative read. --'Tribune'

About this edition

• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0285636073
• ISBN 13: 9780285636071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576