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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9826277" data-attributes="member: 78087">Well, I’m 50 and was educated in the U.K. from when I was 6 (so 1981 onwards). Greek and Norse myths were briefly mentioned in primary school, and then I started doing Latin at school when I was 8 and then Greek when I was 9. Both classes mentioned Greek myths extensively, so I read about them mostly in books by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lancelyn_Green" target="_blank">Roger Lancelyn Green</a>, and that’s basically where I got all my basic mythological education.(Prior to this in South Korea, I of course had zero exposure to Greek or Norse myths.)Roger Lancelyn Green was one of the Inklings - the guys who hung out in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford with C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien - and his stock in trade was retelling myths in well-written if somewhat biased books for kids, so he covered Greek/Roman myths (including the Iliad and the Odyssey), Norse myth, King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Egyptian myths. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Sutcliff" target="_blank">Rosemary Sutcliff</a> then filled me in on Fionn Mac Cumhail, the Roman occupation of Britain, and the historicity of King Arthur. I got bits and pieces of Welsh myth from other novels and stories such as The Owl Service by Alan Garner.Later classics studies at school meant I read a certain amount of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid in their original languages, as well as some classic Greek plays (Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Alcestis etc.) and Herodotus and Livy’s dubious semi-historical myths such as Gyges and Horatius (though of course the story of Brennus and “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vae_victis" target="_blank">Vae victis</a>!” is an extremely important myth and clue to the Roman psyche).</blockquote>

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