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Joseph Campbell's Sarah Lawrence Mythology Class Reading List

This list comprises a master reading list for Campbell's famous Introduction to Mythology class, which he taught at Sarah Lawrence College from the late 1930s to the mid-1970s. This reading list gives a sense of the material covered in this class, but also an insight into the authors and books that most influenced Campbell in his own thinking. It has been published in The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses
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The Golden Bough (James George Frazer)
The Golden Bough
2
James George Frazer
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Émile Durkheim)
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
3
Émile Durkheim
How Natives Think (Lucien Lévy-Bruhl)
How Natives Think
4
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
5
Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
6
Totem and Taboo (Sigmund Freud)
Totem and Taboo
7
Sigmund Freud
Moses and Monotheism (Sigmund Freud)
Moses and Monotheism
8
Sigmund Freud
The Integration of the Personality (Carl Jung)
The Integration of the Personality
9
Carl Jung
The Secret of the Golden Flower (Tr. Richard Wilhelm)
The Secret of the Golden Flower
10
Tr. Richard Wilhelm
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
11
The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Essays (Ananda K. Coomaraswamy)
The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Essays
12
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita
13
The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura)
The Book of Tea
14
Kakuzo Okakura
The Way of Zen (Alan Watts)
The Way of Zen (Alan Watts)
15
Zen in the Art of Archery (Eugen Herrigel)
Zen in the Art of Archery
16
Eugen Herrigel
Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu)
Tao Te Ching
17
Lao-Tzu
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
18
Sun Tzu
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects
19
Confucius
The Great Digest & the Unwobbling Pivot (Confucius)
The Great Digest & the Unwobbling Pivot
20
Confucius
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak (Edward Chiera)
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak
21
Edward Chiera
The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Birth of Tragedy
22
Friedrich Nietzsche
New Testament (Various Authors)
New Testament
23
Various Authors
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound
24
Aeschylus
Hippolytus
Hippolytus
25
Alcestis
Alcestis
26
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
27
Sophocles
Phaedrus (Plato)
Phaedrus
28
Plato
The Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium
29
Plato
The Quran (Unknown)
The Quran
30
Unknown
The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights
31
Anonymous
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
32
Anonymous
The Prose Edda (Sturlulson)
The Prose Edda
33
Sturlulson
The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems
The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems
34
The Mabinogion (Jeffrey Gantz (Translator))
The Mabinogion
35
Jeffrey Gantz (Translator)
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
36
Brothers Grimm
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Henry Adams)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
37
Henry Adams
Race, Language, and Culture (Franz Boas)
Race, Language, and Culture
38
Franz Boas
Tonio Kroger (Thomas Mann)
Tonio Kroger
39
Thomas Mann
Tales of the North American Indians (Stith Thompson)
Tales of the North American Indians
40
Stith Thompson
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