Changes

==Professional Life==

==Professional Life==

Joseph Campbell wrote extensively on mythic structure, identifying themes and plot elements common to hundreds of myths from many different world cultures. Some common elements he identified include the reluctant hero, the wise mentor, the faceless villain, and the difficulty of the heroes journey home.

Joseph Campbell wrote extensively on mythic structure, identifying themes and plot elements common to hundreds of myths from many different world cultures. Perhaps his most widely-read book, which is required reading in unviersities across the world, is ''The Hero with a Thousand Faces''.  In this book, he examines the "human impulse to create stories and images that, though they are clothed in the motifs of a particular time and place, draw nonetheless on universal, eternal themes."

 

He achieved widespread recognition with his PBS miniseries, "The Power of Myth."