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Stages of the Heroic Journey
According to Joseph Campbell in the Hero with a Thousand Faces, epic heroic journeys tend to share many of the same characteristics across cultures. To find out more about the stages of the heroic journey and variosu examples of these stages in world literature, click on the links below.
Joseph Campbell on the Heroic Journey
The Joseph Campbell Foundation
Carl Jung on the Heroic Journey
The Labyrinth as an Epic Journey
The Mid-Atlantic Geomancy Labyrinth page
Veriditas: the World-Wide Labyrinth Project
The St. Louis Labyrinth Project
Maricopia's A Web of Labyrinths site
Selected Literary Epic Journeys
The list of links below makes no pretense of completion; rather, it provides web resources to supplement the reading materials in the first unit of the IDST 2305 course. Many other links to the great epics of the world can be found on the pages for the various units of the course.
Gilgamesh
A Musical Interpretation of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Storytelling, The Meaning of Life, and the Epic of Gilgamesh
World Literature: Gilgamesh Study Guide
The Flood Narrative from the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
The Epic of Gilgamesh: An Outline with Bibliography and Links this site contains a very nice, succinct list of the various translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh on the web, as well as an outline of the story and a bibliography.
Dante's Inferno
Dante's Divine Comedy by far the best Dante site on the web. Site offers several different translations, art, music, and a wealth of other resources.
Links related to Dante's Inferno from City Honors some very nice links, though one should be aware several of the artciles there are by high school students.
Dante's Inferno: Instructional Media Project