Meilleurs Livres de Mythologie 2026

Madeline Miller

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achille…

Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller takes a minor figure from Homer's Odyssey, the witch Circe, and builds a full novel around her. An instant number one New York Times bestseller, Circe is the finest…

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's bestselling retelling of the major Norse myths, from the creation of the world through the death of Baldur to Ragnarok. Gaiman stays close to the source material in t…

Unknown Author

Heroes by Unknown Author — one of the most acclaimed books in its field.

Edith Hamilton

Sparknotes presents a clear discussion of the action and thoughts of the work.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry retells the Greek myths from the creation of the universe through the age of the Olympians, in warm, witty, modern prose. Mythos is the most popular recent entry point …

translated by Robert Fagles Homer

Dating to the ninth century BCE, Homer's timeless poem still vividly captures the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with one another's fates on the fields of Troy. Fagle…

Joseph Campbell

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary und…

Raymond O. Faulkner

The oldest surviving religious text designed to guide the deceased through the Egyptian afterlife, used in funerary practice from 1550 BCE onward. Raymond Faulkner's translation, p…

Andrew George

The world oldest great work of literature, predating Homer by centuries, in Andrew George award-winning Penguin Classics translation. A story about friendship, grief, and the fear …

Stephanie Dalley

Stephanie Dalley's Oxford World's Classics translation collects the primary Babylonian and Assyrian mythological texts, including the complete Atrahasis flood epic, multiple Gilgam…

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson's 13th century Prose Edda in the standard Penguin Classics translation by Jesse Byock. This is the single most important primary source for Norse mythology, organi…

Arthur Cotterell

Over 500 alphabetical entries describing the central mythical figures of each culture (classical, Celtic, and Norse) and over 550 illustrations spanning fifteen centuries of fine a…

Snorri Sturluson (trans. Anthony Faulkes)

Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century compendium of Norse mythology, the single most important text for the tradition. Anthony Faulkes' translation is the standard English edition.…

Richard H. Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson's comprehensive visual encyclopedia covers more than 200 Egyptian deities with illustrated entries on iconography, cult centers, and mythological roles. The stand…

Geraldine Pinch

Spanning ancient Egyptian culture--from 3200 BC to AD 400--Pinch opens a door to this hidden world and casts light on the nature of myths and how they relate to the evolution of Eg…

Carolyne Larrington (trans.)

Carolyne Larrington's translation of the older Eddic poems that Snorri Sturluson drew on. The Voluspa alone, the prophetess's account of creation and destruction, makes the volume …

Stephan Weaver

The gods of Ancient Egypt conjure up images of hieroglyphs with animal-headed people, fantastic civilizations, and a past that seems both unimaginably distant and still tenuously c…

Richard Barber

Richard Barber's standard modern scholarly history of the Holy Grail. Barber is a medievalist who tracks the Grail from Chretien de Troyes in the 1180s through to modern fiction, t…

Adrienne Mayor

Stanford folklorist Adrienne Mayor traces the Amazon myth back to archaeological origins in the Scythian and Sarmatian warrior women of the Eurasian steppe, drawing on Greek accoun…