{"id":11437,"date":"2026-01-31T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/?post_type=dllbl_book&#038;p=11437"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:03:15","slug":"the-power-of-myth","status":"publish","type":"dllbl_book","link":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/books\/the-power-of-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.<\/strong><br><br><strong>\u201cCampbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.\u201d\u2014<em>Newsweek<\/em><br><\/strong><br><em>The Power of Myth\u00a0<\/em>launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people, including\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the \u201csong of the universe, the music of the spheres.\u201d With Bill Moyers, one of America\u2019s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer,\u00a0<em>The Power of Myth<\/em>\u00a0touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.<br><br>From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell\u2019s work,\u00a0<em>The Power of Myth<\/em>\u00a0continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11438,"template":"","dllbl_topic":[3736,3735],"class_list":["post-11437","dllbl_book","type-dllbl_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dllbl_topic-the-age-of-mars-series","dllbl_topic-the-lunar-cycle-series"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/11437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dllbl_book"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/11437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/11437\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dllbl_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dllbl_topic?post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}