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Anonymous Mon Mar 22 05:39:41 2021 No.17841730 [Reply] [Original]

I want to read more about Greek Mythology but I don't know where to start.
Got any books to recommend??

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 05:42:08 2021 No.17841736 >>17841730 Edith Hamilton's Mythology

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 05:51:52 2021 No.17841764 >>17841730 The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Bodyssey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:16:34 2021 No.17841845 >>17841730 Iliad Odyssey aeneid

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:23:03 2021 No.17841868 File: 28 KB, 260x400, Graves - Greek Myths.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17841730 This is what you need.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:26:12 2021 No.17841878 >>17841764 Add to that Hesiod and (Pseudo)-Apollodorus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:35:19 2021 No.17841903 File: 84 KB, 787x1200, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17841730

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:38:23 2021 No.17841916 File: 254 KB, 950x1420, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17841730

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:46:26 2021 No.17841933 Theogony Iliad Odyssey Aeneid Metamorphosis Yes the last two are Roman, but they still incorporate the same myths.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:54:26 2021 No.17841964 File: 168 KB, 897x1360, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Look at all these midwits recommending the Iliad and the Odyssey, as if OP wasn't aware of their existence. They're not even texts on Greek mythology. They just use mythology.

Anonymous Mon Mar 22 06:57:18 2021 No.17841971
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>>17841736
Bad
>>17841764
>>17841845
Good (Iliad and Odyssey only)
>>17841868
>>17841903
>>17841916
Good
>>17841933
Bad, don't mix Roman adaptations of Greek myths with the Greek myths.

tl;dr: OP, for comprehensive mythology knowledge, read Graves' book if you're too much of a pleb to read Pseudo-Apollodorus. For everything else, pic related. Avoid Edith Hamilton.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 07:45:01 2021 No.17842135 >>17841971 Fuck, I got filtered by the Graves' one. I can't bear to his myths interpretation.

Anonymous Mon Mar 22 08:04:31 2021 No.17842236

>>17841730
Hamilton’s Mythology - easy read and gives you a good introduction to most myths.

Iliad - Essential and enjoyable Greek epic.

Odyssey - Better than Iliad but has to be read second.

Aeneid - More Roman but needed to complete the previous epics.

Metamorphoses - surprised no one has mentioned this. It’s excellent, and very easy to follow.

inb4 Greek not Roman, they are only different in name.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 08:31:14 2021 No.17842374 >>17842236 >inb4 Greek not Roman, they are only different in name. big oof

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 11:06:08 2021 No.17843110 >>17841730 start with the classics, like the first two Percy Jackson series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 11:07:30 2021 No.17843118 >>17841736 Pair Hamilton's mythology with Bulfinch's and you'll be set.

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