The difference I think is that I took a class in college reading myth as literature, and even though in a lot of ways fairy tales are no different (and I love the Grimms for example), what I usually felt about myths is that the stories I knew of them never told me enough, while I generally felt more satisfied with the fairy tales in their telling.
I tend to shy away from modern retellings of fairy tales for reasons I’ve discussed in other reviews, but I really enjoy retellings of myths (though I like the straight retellings of them within their own context more than modern renderings of them in contemporary contexts). “Sing, Muse, he sings, and the edge in his voice makes it clear that this is not a request.”
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