Reddit mentions of Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI (Latin Edition) (Bks. 1-6) (English and Latin Edition)

That's Clyde Pharr's edition (usually known as the Purple Vergil). It's a great help. The old Ad Usum Delphini are great, too. They usually have a prose rewording of the text, so you can decode the poetry without going into English too much (this site has some Ovid, Horace, and Lucretius editions)

Might be Pharr's Aeneid-- I used it too.

http://www.amazon.com/Vergils-Aeneid-Books-Edition-English/dp/0865164215

Are you reading an annotated text or just straight Latin? If you don't already have a copy I highly recommend [Pharr's version](Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI (Latin Edition) (Bks. 1-6) (English and Latin Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865164215/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_RcStDb8RST3Z9) for its grammar notes!

Pharr's commentary on the first 6 books of the Aeneid is a classic go-to for intermediate students. The best part is that the comprehensive vocab notes and commentary are at the bottom of the page so there's no constant flipping back and forth. The only bad thing is that Pharr wrote this essentially as a job application and got the job so he never wrote a second edition for the rest of the Aeneid lol.


https://www.amazon.com/Vergils-Aeneid-Books-Latin-English/dp/0865164215

Get yourself a purple Virgil. Industry standard for students at your level.

I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed studying Latin so much. Where I live (Canada), classical studies are not valued at all; people honestly don't understand why it would be important to retain some cultural continuity with all of Europe's past, where until just two or three hundred years ago, going to university in Europe meant doing scholarship in Latin. It therefore warms my heart to hear you speaking so fondly of it, and to know that there's a place in the world where even engineers have heard of Vergil.

I do hope you're able to keep reading Latin in your free time. If you like poetry digestible in small chunks, you might enjoy the very user-friendly Catullus. There are other excellent small-scale poets like Propertius, but I find his language rather more difficult. If you can find a book with bite-size excerpts of Ovid, that would be a wonderful way to go as well; Ovid is just stellar.

If you're up for a larger-scale work at any point, there's a fabulous student edition of the first six books of the Aeneid in English where there's an index of the very most common words at the back, then all the other vocabulary is given, with grammatical notes as well, on the same page as the Latin; it saves very, very much time with a dictionary. The book was prepared by an early 20th-century schoolteacher named Clyde Pharr and is available both in paperback and hardback editions.

For fairy tales, I recommend the following:

• The Victorian Fairy Tales Book
  
• Norton's The Classic Fairy Tales
  
• Norton's The Great Fairy Tale Tradition
  
• The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
  
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
  
• Any and all of Andrew Lang's Colored Fairy Books (the first two focus on collections of well-known tales, but most of them are sort of themed/grouped geographically and have fairy tales from all over the world)
  
• The Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
  
• The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
  
• I'm a big fan of the various "Annotated" Fairy Tale collections, like the Annotated Brothers Grimm, Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, and Annotated Hans Christen Andersen, though I don't always agree with the editorializing. It's a whole series, so I'm only going to link to a couple.
  
• On that note, look for book collections put together and/or edited by Maria Tatar and Jack Zipes. They're the two most prominent fairy tale scholars at the moment and basically have an unofficial duopoly on the fairy tale academic criticism market.
  
• Also, a special shout-out to P.J. Lynch's illustrated version of East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and really all of the fairy tales books that Lynch illustrates. They're beautiful.
  
  
  For mythology and classical studies, there are a couple that are basically required reading for any Mythology or Classics class. Since several people have already recommended anthologies of Greek myths, I'm going to err more on the "Classics" side of the conversation:
  
  
• Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
  
• The Odyssey, Homer (I recommend the Fagles translation due to its prominence in academia and its status as one of the best translations of the work)
  
• The Illiad, Homer (again, Fagles translation)
  
• The Aeneid, Virgil (again, Fagles has a translation that's very good). My bias as a Latin student, however, leads me to also recommend Pharr, which has no real use to you if you don't know Latin but it's the most popular all-time textbook version of the Aeneid)
  
• Metamorpheses, Ovid
  
• You also probably want to look at some Greek plays like the Sophoclean Tragedies/Three Thebian Plays

Whichever you choose just try and find a "reader" style book that includes vocab and notes on the same page. It's a huge quality of life boost. E.g. for Vergil ( https://www.amazon.com/Vergils-Aeneid-Books-Latin-English/dp/0865164215 ) and the Vulgate (a quick search gave me this: https://www.amazon.com/Vulgate-Old-Testament-Reader/dp/1593332157 ). Vergil is going to be more complicated though, so if you go for Classical Latin, as others have suggested, go with Caesar's Gallic Wars.