I refuse to read pic related because it was written by a woman

I refuse to read pic related because it was written by a woman.
What is the best book (written by a male) to learn about Greek mythology for the purpose of reading philosophy in the future?

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Edith Hamilton is based tho, she's a good writer

I know this is a meme bait thread but i do hope people realize she's just neatly putting all the myths into one book for people right?

It's not like she wrote them. The original authors were male.

Based, I do the same

She's just summarising the myths in a brief way. She does a good job and she's an academic. If you don't want to read her books go read some Neil Gaiman trash. Pleb.

I'll read this one

The Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton

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Hey, this is the first book I ever bought! It was the first book I ever read all the way through. My parents started trying to get me ready for first communion soon after but I recognized everything borrowed from ancient myths and considered it lazy writing. I still have the same copy, I treasure it well.

>Edith Hamilton made me atheist at 5 years old.

This is the best book out there on Greek Myths

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Didn't they put some fashionable contemporary nonsense into the latest edition?

Robert Graves is who you are looking for.

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She was probably a lesbian if that helps

Nope

I don't know what Yea Forums thinks about it but I really enjoyed Stephen Fry's books. It's the only thing I've read on the subject though.

just read the primary sources you pseud. if you read these kiddie summaries instead of the real thing you're more of a woman than she is and that goes double for that cuck robert graves.

If this is in some unforeseen impossibility not bait you’re a limp brained cretin

What are the "primary sources"?

Thomas Taylor Sallust On the Gods and the World.
Thomas Taylor's "Oracles and Mysteries"
And M.L West's Orphic Poems; and his 'Indo-European Poetry and Myth'.
Robert Fagles' Iliad-Odyssey-Aeneid trilogy.
The book called: Selected Myths (of Plato—Oxford).

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Are these the "primary sources"?

no lmao

>Thomas Taylor
Redpilled

Didn't think anyone here would read Manly p hall.

not sure op would enjoy reading graves talk about about the matriarchal first society

>ctrl f bulfinch
>no results

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>It's not like she wrote them
fuck off, yes she did

Imagine being so warped that you let your political/ideological leanings dictate whether or not you read a book instead of just reading it and then forming a judgement. How are you any different to people who don’t read certain classic novels because of the author’s misogyny?

I hate feminism too but honestly old classicist hags like her are all right.

Edith Hamilton tries too hard to sound like a mysterious old storyteller instead of an academic, it's rather cringe.

Bulfinch is a pleasant writer but bowlderized a lot of the myths to suit the sensibilities of people in the late 19th century, a lot of the sex is glossed over.

I don't remember him talking about it's superiority or anything, though. It should be obvious that patriarchies are superior to matriarchies by virtue of matriarchies never being able to progress beyond mud hut villages in bumfuck nowhere.

One is real and one is just nonsense, user. Can you guess which is which?

Yes - they’re both nonsense perpetuated by people who don’t have conviction in their ability to critique works that they disagree with.

so does Robert Graves

Go on.

Just read Wikipedia articles.

have you read graves' work? that's just what he talks about

The Library of Apollodorus.

Go to.

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she explains the myths and has a few small extracts, it's not just a compilation but a rewriting

was she ugly?

Is it worth it?
Think I'm gonna read this one.

Theogony maybe?

>primary sources
Theogony
Works and Days
Iliad
Odyssey
Metamorphoses

It's basically a reference. The original myths are by far the best.

homer, hesiod, pindar, athenian dramatists, apollodorus, ovid

Thanks.

he literally wrote a science fiction novel about an utopian future society with no poverty or strife that returned to the prehistorical matriarchal goddess worship that he thinks all the greek myths are confused references to (and that he actually just 100% pulled out of his ass).

>The original authors were male.
those writings are not original either as they are derived from generations of oral storytelling, a lot of which might have been invented by grandmas trying to get kids to fall asleep. watch out op, that story about baby hermes stealing cows might be by a woman and if you read it your brain will be poisoned by woman-think for life

I thought Perseus using his smart phone in selfie mode to defeat Medussa was a little anachronistic myself.

Percy jackson isn't a good source of information regarding mythology.

Do you mean to tell me that's actually a plot point from something?!

jesus christ mate