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If reading the book in sequence, this makes it easy to make note that the book is introducing a new god/monster/person rather than get confused by a similarly spelled name. The book also includes plenty of images, depictions of these stories from ancient times to the 20th century, to help with your visualizations.Īnd, as with the previous volume, the first time a character is mentioned in Heroes, their name is in all caps. Fortunately, each mortal’s section is broken into subsections of about one to ten pages. Since these stories intertwine so much, it’s a bit hard to put the book down, not being sure where to pause for the moment. This volume is as fantastic as the previous one. Footnotes add tangential information, as well as humorous asides by Fry. These stories are told in a compelling and easy-to-read manner, with all of Stephen Fry’s genius and wit.

The beginning of the book includes a map of the ancient Greek world along with a family tree for the Olympian gods to get you oriented, and then it dives right into stories of the famous, infamous, and little-known heroic mortals from ancient Greece’s mythology. From Perseus to Heracles, Theseus (and his Labors) to Oedipus, Jason to Atalanta (thank you, Alan Alda, for making her “Foot Race” story ingrained in my childhood), we are treated to traditional stories told in the fascinating way of the great Stephen Fry. This year, Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined, the follow up to Fry’s Mythos, tells the stories of the mortal heroes who had to (got to?) interact with the Greek gods. From Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology to Stephen Fry’s study of the Greek gods in Mythos, fans of the topic now have many options to consume these stories in new ways. The bookstores abound with revisits to ancient mythologies these days, with those fictional times, long ago, reexamined by compelling storytellers in a way that appeals to modern readers. Tl dr: If you’re a fan of Greek mythology and/or Stephen Fry, Heroes is a must buy (as was Mythos).