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Originally Posted by marcop
Ovid's Metamorphoses. I was given a a children's book of Greek myths when I was about 7 years old, written by Robert Graves of I, Claudius fame, and it hooked me on the mythology genre. I read Ovid's book when I was around 18, and it had grown-up versions of most (if not all) of the myths I'd read as a child.
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Ovid's grandiose horror story (The Metamorphosis) is not a beginner's book indeed. For greek mythos, start with the source: The Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony.
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