Homer and Ovid are pretty good for starter. Metamorphoses is really nice book with lot of stories woven together.
My favorite quote:
> Yet world was not complete.
> It lacked a creature that had hints of heaven
> And hopes to rule the earth. So man was made.
> Whether He who made all things aimed at the best,
> Creating man from his own living fluid,
> Or if earth, lately fallen through heaven's aether,
> Took an immortal image from the skies,
> Held it in clay which son of Iapetus
> Mixed with the spray of brightly running waters —
> It had a godlike figure and was man.
> While other beasts, heads bent, stared at wild earth,
> The new creation gazed into blue sky;
> Then careless things took shape, change followed change
> And with it unknown species of mankind.
My favorite quote:
> Yet world was not complete. > It lacked a creature that had hints of heaven > And hopes to rule the earth. So man was made. > Whether He who made all things aimed at the best, > Creating man from his own living fluid, > Or if earth, lately fallen through heaven's aether, > Took an immortal image from the skies, > Held it in clay which son of Iapetus > Mixed with the spray of brightly running waters — > It had a godlike figure and was man. > While other beasts, heads bent, stared at wild earth, > The new creation gazed into blue sky; > Then careless things took shape, change followed change > And with it unknown species of mankind.