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Are there any decent novels dipping into Greek mythology that aren't complete slop/YA? I have an itch 🥺👀 !bookworms
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Just read the actual mythology. Don't bother with the novels, they're all slop
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I'm pretty sure the actual mythology was oral...
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there's a few books that actually cover it, they're not really novels tho
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But do they count as "the actual mythology"? 🤔🤔🤔
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I just want a cozy historical novel set in Ancient Greece that toys with the mythology a bit is this too much to ask
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That's certified ludoslop, sorry
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Read homer. Stanley lambardo translations are plain english and readable by modern standards. He translated the aeneid as well but thats roman but same shit.
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Not a novel 👎
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I've been skeptical of Homer translations since reading Strabo. When I see how much was already completely incomprehensible by the 1st century I have my doubts about modern translators. In a lot of cases they didn't even know if something was a word or a proper noun.
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Try Robert Graves' retellings.
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Iron Druid Chronicles
deals with mythology
many cultures but mostly Irish 
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Thx for the suggestion but I hate the Irish and will not read anything that features their culture 👍
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It does not paint
their mythology 
in a happy 
light. Pretty 
good series 
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You're missing out. The Cooley Cattle Raid is incredibly based. Two guys get in an argument. As they leave, one of them is so mad that he grabs a small tree and yanks it out of the ground and tosses it over his shoulder. It lands right on the other guy and impales. There's all kinds of crazy shit like that in there. Telepathic cattle. Girlfights. It's got everything.
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It's all really pretty prose too
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https://www.goodreads.com/series/243176-stephen-fry-s-great-mythology
I think these are supposed to be good.
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Read Strabo when he's explaining which places in the real world the Odyssey was actually set in.
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Did u kno that Ulysses is le hec*in Odyssey?!!!?!!
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