Greek Mythology

[PacificBlue]

I'm interested in reading more. Anybody know of any good books?

I'll check in on this thread tomorrow...my body needs sleep.

 

[Silverluna]

edith hamilton provides some very textbook defin of myths....she's very clinical and without passions.....no romance no lust...just facts.

 

[lilminx]

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. "Clash of the Titans" has such cheesy effects, but I love that movie.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

You can usually find plenty of anthologies of greek mythology...there's an oxford university edition which is quite thorough.

 

[lilminx]

There are also tons of sites on the internet where you can learn about the gods and goddesses- it gives you basic background on all of them . I would suggest reading that first, as Greek mythology can get very confusing at times.... very incestuous.


Here's one I just found:
http://www.mythweb.com/

 

[Reverie]

I love Mythology, particularly Celtic and Greek.

I got a great book on sale at Borders called The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell & Rachel Storm.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Read the Iliad and the Oddysy.

they are the same story but told by the oposeing armies.

alsot read the apple of Discord.

it is the story of Paris (the person), and how the Trojan war actualy started. (funny it started over an apple lol)

Iliad and Oddysy are what happend during and after the war.

from what I understand from the Mythology classes I tood
almost everything in greek and roman mythology revolve around the Trojan war.

 

[REDWAVE]

Athena

Goddess of wisdom and war, greatest of all deities, alone supreme in her magnificence, at odds with Ares, disdainful of but allied with Apollo and Aphrodite (that flighty bitch), sprung full-blown from the head of Zeus, the be-owled one, locked in eternal desperate struggle with Kali from the Indian mythos. . .

You don't want to mess with Athena.

 

[La Principessa]

the apple of Dischord.....uh oh...Dilly's going to be in here with a story and AV about THAT one!!

hey Fly....I like THAT AV too!! if we put your last few AV together like a jigsaw puzzle we get the whole front of you!!

 

[LukkyKnight]

I'm interested in reading more. Anybody know of any good books?

Sure, I know some GREAT books, but they have nothing to do with Greek mythology.

 

[rubymyst]

i addition to the ones mentioned earlier
Larousse is an excellent resource for all mythology including Greek
Mary Renault has written some books on Greek mythology as well as some famous figures such as Alexander the Great
some of the name"
The king must die ( on aegeus)
The persian boy ( alexanders love for a slave boy)
The minotour

 

[District Line]

I haven't seen Hesiod mentioned yet, why not add him to the list. His mythological/religious world views were popular in classical times.

Since Greek mythology and religion were intertwined and since Orphism, Eleusian mysteries etc were important in antiquity perhaps you might like to read about that kind of thing (I'm not religious by the way, I don't want to push religion onto you but on the whole that is the way things were).

Orpheus and Greek Religion
W.K.C. Guthrie

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Jane Ellen Harrison

Greek Religion
Walter Burkert

Widening the scope a bit, the following includes works by various poets (apart from Homer/Hesiod), dramatists, and historians.

Ancient Greek Literature
Kenneth James Dover et al

(However, in my opinion the most interesting works of the Greeks were in the field of philosophy).

 

[Mountain Man]

Read the Iliad and the Oddysy.

they are the same story but told by the oposeing armies.

alsot read the apple of Discord.

it is the story of Paris (the person), and how the Trojan war actualy started. (funny it started over an apple lol)

Iliad and Oddysy are what happend during and after the war.

from what I understand from the Mythology classes I tood
almost everything in greek and roman mythology revolve around the Trojan war.

Actually, the illiad is the story of the Trojan war, all ten years of it...told mainly from the Greek side

The Oddyssey is the story of Odysseus, a greek General, and his 10 year Journey home from the Trojan war.

All

 

[islandman]

I'd give Ovid's Metamorphoses a try. Can be hard to read at times, but otherwise well worth it.

 

[Jonnyray]

I'd give Ovid's Metamorphoses a try. Can be hard to read at times, but otherwise well worth it.

Ovid is is like repeatedly slamming your head into a wall. Try an anthology they're simpler to get started.

 

[Guest]

I'd give Ovid's Metamorphoses a try. Can be hard to read at times, but otherwise well worth it.

Wasn't Ovid in Roman era? I dunno.

 

[PacificBlue]

Thank you. I'll check some of these out this weekend and in the weeks to come.

 

[islandman]

Clash of the Titans is on right now.........Sci-Fi channel I think.

 

[lilminx]

No one's mentioned The Aenid yet:

http://www.skidmore.edu/~j_wilmot/Jane.htm

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Actually, the illiad is the story of the Trojan war, all ten years of it...told mainly from the Greek side

The Oddyssey is the story of Odysseus, a greek General, and his 10 year Journey home from the Trojan war.

All

yah I know that, I thought the Illiad was the roman side telling it.

okay what am I thinnkinf of them? it's a roman book it tells of the trojan war. aprhodity has a child in the Trojan city, she tells her sun the night before the horce was left that he must flee. the story then takes place after the war told by the romans.

and Odisious is called Ulisies.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Bullfinch's Mythology yet. Anything and everything you want to know. (Edith Hamilton is also excellent, I agree).

 

[Tropism]

DCL, Bullfinch's was the one I always read. Excellent.

I found it's website, too.

http://www.bulfinch.org/