This was recommended by /lit/. I'm almost done reading it and I think this book has at least 5 or 6 typos, the most of any book I've read so far this year. How does that happen
You’d be better served reading Percy Jackson
>>24737450Are you enjoying it tho?
>>24737450Mythology retold by a woman...Yeah, anon, good luck.
>>24737450Stop buying print-on-demand editions from Indians off of Amazon, Ranjeet.
>>24737450Her editor just said "Yeah, haha, looks great." and went back to jacking off.
>>24737698It's the mass market paperback version yeah but I got it from a used bookstore
>>24737696NTA but isn't Hamilton a well established Platonist? Also, any recs on greek mythology other than the OP
>>24737696This book is a classic, but in the age of wikipedia, I don't know if these types of books are that helpful anymore.
>>24737450it was written by a woman
>>24737696That woman was fluent in Greek and Latin. She read all the classics in the original language before you read them in translation.>>24737951It a quick read, good as a summarization of all the major gods and stories before you read the originals or a serious mythology textbook. But she's opinionated and it should not be taken as authoritative.
>>24737450Edith Hamilton's Mythology is OK. I honestly think Bernard Evslin and Gustav Schwab are better writers who do 'modern' adaptations of Greek mythology, likewise Kevin Crossley-Holland does a much better job writing about Norse mythology than Hamilton (and Neil Gaiman).
