I really liked your comment. Was it from a book you read these informations or it is your collective knowledge on your past readings? Because, I recently have desire to learn and read about Egypt/Greek Mythologies. I would appreciate if you have some suggestions.
I think it's the latter, collective knowledge of reading too much dense, boring books, lol.
I can't help you with Egyptian mythos but with Greek ones I'd recommend Hesiod's
Theogony and
Works and days if you want to get the "bigger" picture and to know the cosmogony/origin of the Universe according to the Greek Mythology.
There's also Ovid's
Metamorphoses which is some kind of compendium or collection of short myths, from the origin of the Universe to Romulus&Remus (and a little about Julius Caesar apotheosis)
. Ovid/Ovidius is a Roman poet and his myths are heavily influenced by his own culture (with the concept of primeval Chaos being way different to Greek one), but because of the hellenization of the Romans, most myths/gods/etc. are more or less similar.
I also like to read certain books kinda like in a "trilogy" or a "saga", but based on the original "Epic/Trojan Cycle", like Homer's
Iliad (the Trojan war), Quintus Smyrnaeus'
Posthomerica (end of the Trojan War+lost stories like the Aethiopis, Little Iliad, etc.), the
Odyssey (also end of TW, aftermath to the Greek kings and Odysseus own journey to home), Aeschylus'
Oresteia (what happened to Agamemnon after the war and the story of his son).
I also have my own small version of the Theban Cycle (a pre-"prequel" of the Trojan war) with Sophocles'
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus story), Sophocles'
Oedipus at Colonus (end of Oedipus' story), Aeschylus'
Seven Against Thebes (Oedipus sons' civil war), and again Sophocles'
Antigone (aftermath of the civil war).
Keep in mind that Aeschylus and Sophocles' works are theater plays, so they're dense asf, and written in a way that I personally dislike (that mf of Shakespeare traumatized me in highschool). The other works may also be pretty dense, if your search/passion for knowledge doesn't let you surpass those hardships, I highly advice to get some "easily readable" books on the matter, like one of those random "Universal mythologies" books that are also compendiums of short stories.
I think there're also ""historical"" novels that deal with those themes too, like Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles which I didn't read but apparently is pretty famous. I used to read many historical novels like Santiago Posteguillo's
Africanus and
Trajanus trilogies (about famous Roman characters) and those really help you sympathize with the people and immerse yourself on those eras.