Any book /lit/ recommends to start with Greek mythology?
hamilton's mythology then go to major works like homer and hesiod
robert graves
>>8592951
Edith Hamilton - Mythology
It's pretty much the Gold standard.
>>8592982
awsome i'll give it a shot. Thanks.
Just read Ovid
Hamilton has been the standard for a while but if you want something a bit more comprehensive and academic I'd recommend The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March. It points to its sources more often and identifies the different versions of myths from the various ancient sources.
You should know all of this stuff by literary osmosis by now.
>>8592951
Robert Graves- The Greek Myths
>>8593356
>preferred translation of The Iliad is Alexander Pope
This is legitimately the most pseudo-intellectual preference/recommendation. Pope's translation is hardly even The Iliad; it completely butchers all the poetic cornerstones of the Greek and supplants them with distended, metrically unfaithful language. God it fucking triggers me anytime time some know-nothing idiot proffers this translation. Read Lattimore or Verity.