Which book should I read to know about Ancient Greek Myths/ Stories?

>>8599108
Definitely start with Hesiod for the creation myths. You should also read the Odyssey, Iliad, and Aeneid. Ovid's Metamorphoses as well

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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes is a book written by Edith Hamilton

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These two covered a lot. Start with these OP. If you're struggling to remember a lot of the gods during Iliad or Metamorphoses, take a break, look them up, and look at some cool paintings.

Also Apollodorus's Library. Boring read but very useful.

other two anons covered pretty much the essential. for supplementary readings, you can research on the greek mysteries esp. those relating to demeter, orpheus, dionysius, and isis. mysteries of isis are particularly interesting of you want to know about how egyptian myths influenced greek ones

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Elizabeth Vandiver's lectures on Classical Mythology

archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume1

Dr. Elizabeth Vandiver is Professor of Classics and Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly Director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics

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Introduction

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume2

Lecture 2 What is Myth

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume3

Lecture 3 Why is Myth

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume4

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Thanks a lot! I'll try to read everything you guys mentioned.