Greek Mythology Reference
Bullfinch's Mythology is okay; I read him for nostalgic reasons. Very dated, though charming.
Edith Hamilton's stuff is, well, not so great. Okay for kids I guess, like Butters.
Robert Graves' The Greek Myths is interesting, but idiosyncratic and a bit cranky. His pet theories are regurgitated over and over again.
In my opinion, among the best resources for Greek mythology are the following:
- Early Greek Mythology, Gantz
- Classical Mythology, Morford
Both of these are fairly massive resources, highly detailed; very updated and like most reference books are far better used in a digital environment.
~Butters 
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ~Chesterton
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Do you have an opinion of this Logos resource?
Manual of Mythology: Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian Mythology
byA.S. Murray
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Good to know, Butters! Have you added a post to the Suggestions forums for these resources?
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Do you have an opinion of this Logos resource?
Manual of Mythology: Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian Mythology
byA.S. Murray
I don't know anything about Murray's work Fall-Guy, sorry! It's a very old volume; and probably not as reliable and thorough as the volumes I mention above. For most topics, old books are immensely valuable, as they tend to write from a different set of assumptions than what we (mostly unconsciously) hold. Our blind spots are not their blind spots; and so on.
However, for some odd reason, this does not - in my experience - hold true with the study of Greek and Latin mythologies. I find those old volumes to pretty thin gruel - on the other hand, sometimes they provide nice narratives (however often inaccurately), something that is often missing in the otherwise more thorough contemporary studies. And they can be charming, etc.
Cheers,
~Butters [:)]
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ~Chesterton
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Good to know, Butters! Have you added a post to the Suggestions forums for these resources?
Thanks Nick! I hadn't thought of that to be honest. LOL. I've been posting up suggestions here, hoping that Mike will see them. Maybe that's not such an effective way to go about things. [*-)]
Thanks for the suggestion!
~Butters [:)]
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ~Chesterton
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