Greek Mythology Book?

>>9355716
all of the epics
theogeny
metamorphoses

also the homeric hymns

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All the stories are have been open to multiple interpretations. If there's a compilation that goes through them all, I haven't heard about it.
Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, the Homeric hymns, and all the Athenian playwrights are decent source samples.

Robert Graves Greek Myths gives a great rundown of pretty much everything. Read that to see what you've missed from the above.

>>9355716

It'd be great if there was a "bible of myth" but there isn't. Graves comes close but he only tells you the broad outlines of the myths. Just go to the sources - poems, tragedies, histories, etc.

If you want to have a general understanding of the body of myth Ovid's Metamorphoses is a great place to start. Most references to myths in modern literature are to myths from Homer, Vergil and Ovid. But especially Ovid.

I was watching right now a documentary of the Greek mythology for the same reason (I want to understand The Odyssey), starting with documentals and video games is a good way to get evolved
https://youtu.be/Rl1fyO3HPjM

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This is the best one

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>>9355933
It's very interesting, but very short. There's a lot more.

Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus and Euripides is all you need.

>>9355759
this
commentaries are for pseuds and women, get the source materials.

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>>9356629
>Fuck learning context and subtext and fuck the alternative versions. Just read some of the source materials and try to figure it out all on your own, like a man!!!

Is /fit/ really still here?

Anyone who writes off books on mythology in favor of "reading the sources" is a pseud, and probably cares less about the myths and more about appearing to know about the myths.

There are things you simply cannot get from the sources, like cultural context, information from fragmented writings, and historical knowledge, as well as the insight a professor can offer from having studied all of these things in depth, which is important with such an old and mostly lost world.
You should still read the sources though.

>>9356725
I don't know, but why don't you go to /mlp/ and stay there? That's where the autism crowd usually hangs out.

>>9355759
What about Apollodorus' Bibliotheca? That's what I've been reading as a precursor to Cypria and the Iliad - Theogony was going to be next.

>>9357153
Are you the guy who made that thread about where to start the other day?
Either way, enjoy.

>>9357159
Yes, I am. Thanks.