Beginners Guide To Ancient Greek Mythological Literature

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[MoAnInc]

MARTIN is my favourite prose translation of the Iliad! I consistently call him Richmond Hammond because Richmond LATTIMORE has my favourite poetry translation of the Iliad ... I also do call Richmond Lattimore Martin sometimes, too. Don't mind me. BUT, the surnames are always correct I promise.

[hannahpotato]

As a newbie to Ancient Greek mythology who just discovered your channel, thank you so much for this video. It is greatly appreciated! I look forward to binge watching the rest of your videos and can’t wait for new ones to come! 💖💖

[DNS-FRANK]

The Illiad and the Odyssey got me through my deployment when I was in the Navy on ship. Thanks for the reading list ❤ I like your panda 🐼

[choblastr]

For those who want the Iliad and Odyssey, barnes and nobles has a very nice leather bound edition of the two combined. You'll roughly pay almost double the price but it's 100% worth it. The barnes and nobles edition is in prose, which I prefer because I really do not care about verse and more over I do not care about verse translated from an ancient version of a language in to a completely different modern language. Prose makes it easier to read as just a story.

[risacademics]

Wonderful contribution miss. Been enjoying your channel and will pass it on to all my students 🐺

[wheresmyeyebrow]

Glad YouTube recommended me your channel!!!

[tumblyhomecarolinep]

It makes me sad that people might sigh about having to read The Iliad and Odyssey.. I did, for decades.. but so glad I eventually did. Anyway, knowing nothing about such things (but I am trying to learn more) I will say that the Emily Wilson translation of the Odyssey really got into the book. Anyway, I have ordered the Homeric hymns to read next, after Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Thank you for your recommendations

[braxbragg]

Ovid's Metamorphoses is another great work, somewhat like Apollodorus, but still very different; and in my opinion much better. It recounts all the important stuff from the creation of the universe to the beginnings of Rome, with a bunch of otherwise little known myths.

[mikeramsay]

I have Hesiod in poetry and prose. I prefer the poetry.

[tylerlyon]

Thank you so much for this video it helps a lot!

[BrendaRoach-fpvk]

Hi I just found your channel and I am so glad that I did! I will be doing a solo trip to Europe this summer with Greece being one of my stops for 3 weeks. :) I'm super stoked and am definitely going to try to read more the books you recommended!

[markberman]

Read both Illiad and the odyssey when I was 15, seems like a million years ago... great to just fall into and have it be an immersive experience. Need to get Stephen Fry's new ones.

[bearrock]

Need to make bingo cards for all the book recs haha

[justharry]

Just read the Stephen Fry books they are fantastic

[brownka]

Some great books to start with, but where would you recommend to go next?

[osckarlaguna.]

one forgotten books about Troy´S war is posthomericas of Quintus of Esmiyna, which is an insteresting book.

[MS-Melas]

I love how arrogant Apollodoros is it has the following not ungraceful epigram:

'Draw your knowledge of the past from me and read the ancient tales of learned lore. Look neither at the page of Homer, nor of elegy, nor tragic muse, nor epic strain. Seek not the vaunted verse of the cycle; but look in me and you will find in me all that the world contains'.

[MarelisaFabrega]

Hi Erica: Thank you for this. Would you consider "The Complete Odes" by Pindar to be a good source for the Greek myths?

[danielfitzgerald]

Unwittingly bought the Chapman translation of The Illiad and struggled through it
Was a couple of hundred pages in before I realised there were easier translations
Read the T.S Lawrence translation of The Odyssey which isn't in verse but easy to read and very enjoyable

[ilion-auroville]

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