My dad told me about all the myths and strange things in them, reading them from Edith Hamilton or…

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metalmagdalene:

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notanupstandingcitizen:

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

Percy Jackson didn’t exist when I was 12, but a lot of other cool books involving mythology did

my mom read Greek myths as bedtime stories

The mythology books at the library had shiny gold patterns on the cover

My dad told me about all the myths and strange things in them, reading them from Edith Hamilton or World Book didn’t really have much more to add but I read them all the same. And then there was Bulfinch…