Joseph Campbell's Reading List for his Comparative Mythology Class at Sarah Lawrence College:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Homer's Odyssey
Frazer, Sir James George The Golden Bough
Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. How Natives Think
Freud, Sigmond:
⦁ The Interpretation of Dreams
⦁ Three contributions to the Theory of Sex
⦁ Totem and Taboo
⦁ Moses and Monotheism
Jung, Carl Gustav:
⦁ The Integration of Personality
⦁ The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm, with a forward and commentary by Jung)
⦁ The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Forward by Jung)
Coomaraswammy, Ananda. The Dance of Siva
The Bhagavad Gita
Okakuru Kazuko. The Book of Tea
Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen
Herrigel, Eugen. Zen in the Art of Archery
Lao-Tze. Tao Te Ching
Sun-Tzu. The Art of War
Confucius.
⦁ Analects
⦁ The Great Digest and Unwobbling Pivot
Chiera, Edward. They Wrote in Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Birth of Tragedy
Bible, New Testament: Book of Luke
Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound
Euripides.
⦁ Hyppolytus
⦁ Alcestis
Sophocles. Oediups Tyrannus
Plato.
⦁ Phaedrus
⦁ Symposium
The Koran
The Portable Arabian Nights
Beowulf
Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson
Poetic Edda
The Mabinogion
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Fairy Tails
Adams, Henry. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Boas, Franz. Race, Language, and Culture
Mann, Thomas. "Tonio Kroger"
Thompson, Stith. Tales of the North American Indians
Opler, Morris Edward. Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture
Stimson, John E. Legends of Maui and Tahaki
Melville, Herman Typee: The Library of America
Frobenius, Leo, and Douglas C Fox. African Genesis
Radin, Paul. African Folktales and Sculpture
Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Homer's Odyssey
Frazer, Sir James George The Golden Bough
Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. How Natives Think
Freud, Sigmond:
⦁ The Interpretation of Dreams
⦁ Three contributions to the Theory of Sex
⦁ Totem and Taboo
⦁ Moses and Monotheism
Jung, Carl Gustav:
⦁ The Integration of Personality
⦁ The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm, with a forward and commentary by Jung)
⦁ The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Forward by Jung)
Coomaraswammy, Ananda. The Dance of Siva
The Bhagavad Gita
Okakuru Kazuko. The Book of Tea
Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen
Herrigel, Eugen. Zen in the Art of Archery
Lao-Tze. Tao Te Ching
Sun-Tzu. The Art of War
Confucius.
⦁ Analects
⦁ The Great Digest and Unwobbling Pivot
Chiera, Edward. They Wrote in Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Birth of Tragedy
Bible, New Testament: Book of Luke
Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound
Euripides.
⦁ Hyppolytus
⦁ Alcestis
Sophocles. Oediups Tyrannus
Plato.
⦁ Phaedrus
⦁ Symposium
The Koran
The Portable Arabian Nights
Beowulf
Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson
Poetic Edda
The Mabinogion
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Fairy Tails
Adams, Henry. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Boas, Franz. Race, Language, and Culture
Mann, Thomas. "Tonio Kroger"
Thompson, Stith. Tales of the North American Indians
Opler, Morris Edward. Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture
Stimson, John E. Legends of Maui and Tahaki
Melville, Herman Typee: The Library of America
Frobenius, Leo, and Douglas C Fox. African Genesis
Radin, Paul. African Folktales and Sculpture
Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen