>>24965342As someone who grew up reading tons of collected mythology, I say that it is not a good mythology book if it does not include numerous pictures.I opened this as a teenager and when I flipped through and saw no images, I put it down.There are much better ways to acquaint yourself with the lore than subjecting yourself to dry text merely.
>>24965342No, it‘s almost entirely paraphrases of Metamorphoses. I only read a bit before wondering why I wasn‘t just reading Ovid.
Just read the primary sources, nigga. Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Hesiod, Apollodorus.
It's the best to start with if you are totally unfamiliar with it as many people were when it was published. If you already have a good grasp then stick to primary sources
>>24965342I also recommend Madeline Miller's Song Of Achilles and Circe
Bernard Evslin's book is excellent.
>>24965353Edith Hamilton is for laymen to read who don’t want to read Ovid and the Homeric hymns
>>24965342Yes.>>2496535275th anniversary edition has pictures.
>>24965493Not really. It's a handy reference.
>>24965405Isnt that gay romance?
>>24965342Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
>>24965352pictures of what? they didn't have cameras back then
>>24965357A Roman cannot be a primary source for the Greeks howeverthoughbeit.
>>24965357Are there versions that include things like context and translation notes? Like the academic version.
>>24965357there really aren’t primary literary sources for greek mythology.
the edith hamilton mythology book used to get shilled hard here ten plus years ago
>>24965405Anon that's just gay shit
>>24966380It's a good book, I have it.75th is a great release.
>>24965342It's the best primer.
Its better than just reading wikipedia for sure
>greeks thought large penises and music was vulgar and uncivilised>fast forward to 2025>niggers existhow the FUCK did they know??
>>24965352>anon on the ltierature board doesn't like readingunsurprising>>24965353Sounds like you only have a vague recollection of it. Hamilton is honestly a step above most retellings because she actually says what her paraphrases are based on, and they are not limited to Ovid by any stretch, just in the first few chapters there's Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Aeschylus, Moschus, Theocritus, Lucian, Bion, and more.
>>24965342Idk Percy Jackson or some shit, if you want a real recommendation read anything else. Mythology is for 5th graders who think it’s cool you should not be reading it past the age of 13.
>>24965342No. A bad recommendation, I don't know why it was so highly rated by old /lit/ other than the aesthetic cover.
>>24966732It sounds like you gathered information from memes and are traversing strangely near to mutt‘s law with it. Don‘t do that.
>>24966799>anon on the literature board only reads contemporary literature and assumes books are only for wordsunsuprising
