Hello /lit/ I fancy buying The Library of Greek Mythology but

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Loeb books are bilingual so they have the text twice. OWC are more for the non-specialist reader.

>>8523941
Ah, thank you anon. Do you know if the bilingual part accounts for why the The Library of Greek Mythology is split into two volumes?

>>8523952
No I'm pretty sure each page is presented like >>8523941 pic. Greek on one, english on the other.

>>8523924
Fuck me I wish I had saved my response to this exact question from a few weeks back. The quick and dirty is:

-As mentioned by the other anon, only half of Loebs are in English
-Loebs are also very small books. Google a photo and you'll see what I mean. Combined with generous margins and the bilingual presentation, and yes, that is why Loeb is in 2 volumes to Oxford's one.
-Loebs are also cash cows. They are expensive as fuck and never go on sale. My rule of thumb is to buy them only when literally nobody else publishes the same text (happens a lot for minor historians, fragmented works, etc.). The only other reasons to buy Loeb are (a) you are able to and intend to read the original Latin/Greek; (b) you want to burn through money.

There is literally no textual difference between the Loeb and the Oxford Apollodorus (I read the Oxford one myself), and on top of that, Loebs (a) have minimal--almost nonexistent--introductions, and (b) hit-or-miss-but-usually-minimal footnotes.

If you're interested in less common ancient works, i.e., are going beyond Homer, Herodotus, etc., a process I'd recommend is referencing the offerings from Loeb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library) and seeing if you can get the text from Oxford/Penguin/Modern Library instead. Otherwise you run the very real risk of buying an edition which all-but-intentionally hides from you the fact that it's merely a selection or an abridgment of the original text (for example, nobody but Loeb offers all of Polybius, and Penguin has chopped up and repackaged Plutarch's "Lives" into like 10 different fucking books).

tl;dr Loeb has smaller pages, bigger margins, and half the text is Greek; it will literally be like 5x more expensive and will have almost no intro, few footnotes, and zero endnotes. The Oxford edition of Apollodorus is fine (but be warned he is boring as shit), and even has very arguably too many end notes.

>>8524636
Thanks anon! This helped a lot.