Hello! Can you give me any recommendation on what classic greek work should I read next? So far I've finished the Theogony, the Homeric Hymns, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and I'm most interested in the godly characters, especially Zeus and Hera. Thank you :)
If you want an informative overview, not a story, I'd suggest Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke. Kind of like an ancient myth compendium; prose, so it's straightforward. Good place to go to regardless of what you're looking for, Greek myth-wise. The version on Theoi.com names the sections by the characters being treated in in the index, which makes it easy to check out what you want to read at the moment, if you don't feel like reading all of it in one go (there's also an edition of it on perseus which was the one I read initially).
If you want/like comedy/satire, there's Lucian of Samosata. Not my preferred flavour of genre, but he has a lot of "Dialogues of..." that involves the gods, for example.
There is also Nonnus' Dionysiaca. It's VERY long, and was written late. I haven't read the whole of it, but from the quotes I've read and what of it I did try, the story isn't very... coherent, as a story, against the rest of the mythos (some circumstances or situations are explicitly just repeated, like Hera offering Hypnos Pasithea in marriage, etc), but if you want to read about Dionysos, you can definitely tackle that.
The Catalogue of Women deals more with the mortal women who had sexual relations with gods and the resultant offspring; it's a genealogical poem, but obviously a number of divine figures are involved in it. (There's no free version online that has all the newer fragments/sections, so if you want the most updated version you'd have to actually buy it (or set out on the high seas /cough).)
Oh, you might like to check out Pindar's various odes and paeans, if you don't mind a lot of additional "so and so from here won this particular event at [game] and that makes me think of [myth]" and similar. Perseus.tufts has a number of them!
Hope that gives you something to choose from, anon!
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