(Part 2) Top products from r/GreekMythology

I always recommend this each time this question is asked:

d'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

https://www.amazon.com/Daulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0385015836/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

It’s sumptuously illustrated, comprehensive but not exhaustive, barely sanitized but reasonably adapted for younger readers while still being thorough and honest with its treatment of the characters for adults, weaving everything logically and chronologically from the creation myths all the way through the Trojan War.

I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It’s great for kids, and great on a coffee table, and it’s great on a night stand. Do yourself and spend the $20 for the hardback and enjoy the ever loving heck out this perfect introduction to Greek mythology.

If you’d like a slightly more comprehensive set of recommendations for primary tests (such as the partial lists recommended elsewhere in this thread) I’d be happy to do that too!

I find Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes to be a good read for a more summary-based approach. HERE

Beyond that, I would suggest the Iliad and the Odyssey as good starting points. Personally, I find the Odyssey to be a much better read, so I'd start with the and then read the Iliad to fill in the larger scope of information.

Look at Gods and Heroes, by Gustav Shwab.

A compilation of many small myths and a few bigger myths. GREAT background reading.

Here's a link to the Amazon Version.

Kinda expensive, but it's a very long book with a TON of different myths, well worth the money.

Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" is pretty good.

This is one of the most copied stories there is. There are dozens and dozens of versions of it.

As someone else said, "O brother where art thou" is a retelling of the Odyssey, but it is fairly abstracted away. For someone who didn't already know the story of the Odyssey, many of the allusions and "retelling" you might not be able to notice.

There is also the classic Joyce novel Ulysses, now a classic of English literature on its own.

Walcott's Omeros

Marget Atwood wrote the "Penelopiad" which retells the story from the wife's perspective.

A few others : Cold Mountain, Big Fish (both the book and the movie), Ice Age : Continental Drift, Ulysses 31 (Anime),


There are also more straight "updated translations"
https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Dramatic-Retelling-Homers-Epic/dp/0393330818

https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Myths-Complete-Definitive/dp/0241952743

Robert Graves "The Greek Myths"

The Greek Myths by Robert Graves: https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Myths-Complete-Definitive/dp/0241982359/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0241982359&pd_rd_r=871caeef-b031-11e8-97de-971d4c54e3db&pd_rd_w=mIMg9&pd_rd_wg=kMZJJ&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=0bb14103-7f67-4c21-9b0b-31f42dc047e7&pf_rd_r=QHD7RDTEQ4PDEYP474C9&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=QHD7RDTEQ4PDEYP474C9