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The Iliad by Homer
4.0

I personally read Samuel Butlers translation (greek Latin) and surprisingly, a rather nice book (poem). As a huge greek mythology nerd, this certainly quenched my thirst (even when I had no clue what was happening for the first half of it and it took me months to get through). Started annotating it because it genuinely made me laugh if you don't take it too seriously.
Something else of note is that because the translation, many of the gods (among other things) have changed names, so that definitely contributed to the confusion. Athena is (Pallas) Minerva, Zeus is Jove, Hera is Juno... There are also just a bunch of names overall (googling it shows there's over a thousand mentioned soo).
I recommend it I suppose? It is definitely a journey so good luck.
Oh and Achilles definitely loves Patroclus (ahem dearest comrade AHEM).