MARTIN HAMMOND***** 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.
Also!!! I created a list for you guys of all the books I could find about the Ancient Greek & Roman world :) Overtime I'll be updating this (and adding sections for Egypt, the Near East, Mesoamerica etc), so check it out via this link www.moaninc.co.uk/books/the-ultimate-classics-book-list
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! 💖💖
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.
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
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.
I love the Metamorphoses, but I tried to stick to GREEK books in this video to avoid confusion about source material! But I 1000% agree that it’s magnificent, AND there’s a new translation of Ovid by Stephanie McCarter which just came out!
Pretty pretty please, I am begging, do NOT read Ovid. Ovid was the Andrew Tate of Ancient Rome. He wrote a literal in the modern sense of the phrase pick-up artist book about how to manipulate women into sex that included a LOT of really messed up advice even for the time. His misogyny translates directly into Metamorphoses as his versions of basically every single myth somehow managed to out-woman-hate even the Athenians.
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!
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.
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'.
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
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MARTIN HAMMOND***** 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.
Also!!! I created a list for you guys of all the books I could find about the Ancient Greek & Roman world :) Overtime I'll be updating this (and adding sections for Egypt, the Near East, Mesoamerica etc), so check it out via this link www.moaninc.co.uk/books/the-ultimate-classics-book-list
Erica, your enthusiasm in videos is infectious!
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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! 💖💖
Thank you for watching!!! 🖤
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.
Wonderful contribution miss. Been enjoying your channel and will pass it on to all my students 🐺
Thank you!
Glad CZcams recommended me your channel!!!
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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 🐼
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
Thank you for leaving this comment! ❤️
Thank you so much for this video it helps a lot!
You’re welcome ☺️
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.
I love the Metamorphoses, but I tried to stick to GREEK books in this video to avoid confusion about source material! But I 1000% agree that it’s magnificent, AND there’s a new translation of Ovid by Stephanie McCarter which just came out!
Pretty pretty please, I am begging, do NOT read Ovid. Ovid was the Andrew Tate of Ancient Rome. He wrote a literal in the modern sense of the phrase pick-up artist book about how to manipulate women into sex that included a LOT of really messed up advice even for the time. His misogyny translates directly into Metamorphoses as his versions of basically every single myth somehow managed to out-woman-hate even the Athenians.
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!
Ahhh - you’ll have the best time!!! Enjoy! 🖤
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.
Thank You 🙏🏾
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one forgotten books about Troy´S war is posthomericas of Quintus of Esmiyna, which is an insteresting book.
Just read the Stephen Fry books they are fantastic
I have those in my other video!!! I’m obsessed with them 😍
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'.
Some great books to start with, but where would you recommend to go next?
Need to make bingo cards for all the book recs haha
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Hi Erica: Thank you for this. Would you consider "The Complete Odes" by Pindar to be a good source for the Greek myths?
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
There are so many translations so that everyone can find the one that suits them the best ✨