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I'm interested in learning about ancient mythology, particularly that of the Greeks and Romans. Where is a good place to start? Are there any other mythologies worth investigating?

>> No.11462801
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>>11462751
Fuck off and read this

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>>11462751
>Are there any other mythologies worth investigating?
all of the Indo European ones are worth it, Japanese and Mesopatamian too.

>> No.11463213

theoi.com
it has all the primary sources

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>>11462751
This. For Hindu, read his Ka.

>> No.11464762

>>11462801
>tfw ordered this and it's magnificent
The drawings are sort of hit and miss but overall the quality is great.

>> No.11465343

Bullfinch

>> No.11465514

>>11462751
add egyptian to the list, a nice trinity

>> No.11465607

>>11462751
I've listened to comfy spotify playlists on mythology

>> No.11465662

>>11465607
what are they called?

>> No.11465728

>>11465662
comfy spotify playlists on mythology

>> No.11466328

>>11463033
If you read Japanese myths you might as well read the Chinese myths too.

>> No.11466394

>>11462751
>be pre-Socratic Greek Homo
>craft the most vitalistic, Seele-centric expressions of Esti that the supremely cultivated human mind can attain
>propound the profundities and mysteries (as genuine mysteries, i.e. not the modern misconception as mystery = simply an unknown) of Phusis in the highest form of literature ever conceived.
>a perfect harmony of metaphysical Aletheia, metre, form, rhythms, harmonies, geometries, astronomies, ethics, religion etc
>these works come to shape the entirety of your civilization for hundreds of years
>skip to 21th C. Anno Domini
>degenerate modernists with hyper-materialistic and infantile conceptions of the cosmos both macrocosmic and microcosmic interpret your works as literally glorified fairy tales or crude, proto-depth psychological parables
>modern shits think that you actually believed in an anthropomorphic Zeus who fucked bitches who got turned into cows because they themselves have such malnourished souls and vital tendencies and have been completely reduced to mechanistic husks hostile to any genuine manifestation of life and so they reduce everything to their level like a postmodern brat smashing works of art in a museum that they themselves lack the capacity to create
>tfw