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> I liked the Odyssey You can get quite a few good bedtime stories out of it, if you tone down the gore so the kids don't get nightmares - Circe, Polyphemus, A

• spdgg 3y ago
  > good bedtime stories May I suggest this? https://garethhinds.com/wp/the-odyssey/ https://garethhinds.com/wp/the-odyssey/ Excellent graphic novel adaptation. The gore is mostly a set of a dozen pages towards the end, when Odysseus kills the suitors, that can easily be skipped.
  • ahazred8ta 3y ago
    There's another graphic novel too. https://bigheadpress.com/otr?page=1 https://bigheadpress.com/otr?page=1
• tnecniv 3y ago
  There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), and made for great listening as a kid before bed. 20 years later I’m in grad school and I meet some classicists. It seems basically every one of them had that book as a kid. Maybe I missed my calling