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.
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
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
@queenisforever1Ай бұрын
Erica, your enthusiasm in videos is infectious!
@MoAnIncАй бұрын
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@hannahpotato3722 Жыл бұрын
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! 💖💖
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!!! 🖤
@3choblast3r4 Жыл бұрын
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.
@DNS-FRANK092 ай бұрын
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 🐼
@risacademicsАй бұрын
Wonderful contribution miss. Been enjoying your channel and will pass it on to all my students 🐺
@MoAnIncАй бұрын
Thank you!
@tumblyhomecarolinep7121 Жыл бұрын
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
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
Thank you for leaving this comment! ❤️
@wheresmyeyebrow1608 Жыл бұрын
Glad KZbin recommended me your channel!!!
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
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@braxbragg5130 Жыл бұрын
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.
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
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!
@TheAbstruseOne Жыл бұрын
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.
@tylerlyon773 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video it helps a lot!
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome ☺️
@markberman6708Ай бұрын
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.
@BrendaRoach-fp5vk Жыл бұрын
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!
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
Ahhh - you’ll have the best time!!! Enjoy! 🖤
@osckarlaguna.3 ай бұрын
one forgotten books about Troy´S war is posthomericas of Quintus of Esmiyna, which is an insteresting book.
@MS-Melas4 ай бұрын
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'.
@justharry2190 Жыл бұрын
Just read the Stephen Fry books they are fantastic
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
I have those in my other video!!! I’m obsessed with them 😍
@danielfitzgerald25614 ай бұрын
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
@MoAnInc4 ай бұрын
There are so many translations so that everyone can find the one that suits them the best ✨
@brownk29a10 ай бұрын
Some great books to start with, but where would you recommend to go next?
@JeffPryor15 күн бұрын
Thank You 🙏🏾
@MoAnInc13 күн бұрын
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@bearrock13 Жыл бұрын
Need to make bingo cards for all the book recs haha
@MoAnInc Жыл бұрын
😂
@MarelisaFabrega Жыл бұрын
Hi Erica: Thank you for this. Would you consider "The Complete Odes" by Pindar to be a good source for the Greek myths?