Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 2)

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In a beautifully engrossing opening chapter, Norton introduces us to the inhabitants of a small Irish community whose lives are about to be shattered by a teenage car crash. Following the victims’ families and the survivors over the next three decades, we witness the repercussions of the tragedy – emotional, psychological and practical – as secrets threaten to reveal themselves. Norton’s third novel is a thoughtful examination of sexual identity, shame, and the impact of collective grief. Three Hours Rosin Agnew (6 February 2015). "Stephen Fry responds to The Meaning of Life controversy". The Irish Times. a b c "Bear's Wild Weekend with Stephen Fry, broadcast 25 December 2013". Channel 4. 25 December 2013 . Retrieved 26 December 2013. One of the nation's favourite intellectuals retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes in his own unique and very enjoyable way Cambridge Independent Interview with Stephen Fry". VideoJug. 31 May 2007. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009 . Retrieved 4 February 2009.

LGBT+ Student Experience Report" (PDF). Union of UEA Students. October 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. The best thing he's written since his superb first novel . . . entertaining and edifying Telegraph (on 'Mythos')The days of the gods themselves were numbered too. Prometheus's gift of fire, as Zeus had feared, would one day allow us to do even without the Olympians.” Audible.com: Audiobooks & Original Audio | Free book with 30 day Trial . Retrieved 28 April 2018– via Audible.co.uk. Walton, James (3 October 2007). "Last night on television: Stephen Fry: HIV and Me (BBC2) – Great British Journeys (BBC2)". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 23 May 2012.

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Overall, I think this book will only be of use to people who know very little about Greek Mythology and want a summary of some of its greatest heroes. If you’ve read these stories before across ancient Greek works, don’t waste your time here.

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Martinson, Jane (1 February 2016). "Stephen Fry to feature in BBC1 mental health season". The Guardian. Sometimes the charm of Fry’s rather domesticated mythical world comes at a price. He tells stories about love and children and animal metamorphosis with grace, but is less successful dealing with grand elemental or heroic themes such as the emergence of the universe from cosmic chaos, or the philanthropy, heroism and terrible punishment of Prometheus. He tends to play down the horror of the primal power struggles and violence in his sources: Kronos has “an unkind habit of eating anyone prophesied to conquer him”. Perhaps this explains why Fry has kept away from the legends of quest, war, politics and kin-murder that are the stuff of the major mythical cycles. BBC Radio 4 – Program Guide for Fry's English Delight". BBC. 8 September 2008 . Retrieved 4 February 2009. For some months now I have been wriggling my way through the fascinating world of Greek Mythology and I have finally come to the realisation these stories are Nursery Rhymes for Grown-ups. Having read and watched a few of these tales, I know how they end, I always know what the heroes and villains will do, but I just want to hear it again and again and each time I hear/watch a story – it's always slightly different. More often than not there’s a different spin, or a slightly divergent theme. Even though these stories were created many, many years ago they are still very much alive.

In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. On 18 May 2018, Fry participated in the semi-annual Munk Debates in Toronto, Canada, where he argued against political correctness on the Con side of the topic "Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress..." alongside Jordan Peterson, and in opposition to Pro side represented by Michelle Goldberg and Michael Eric Dyson. [194] [195] During the debate, Fry paraphrased a famous sentence from the 1923 essay I Am Afraid, in which Old Bolshevik-turned- Soviet dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin denounced censorship in the Soviet Union. The original sentence reads, "True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics." [196] Fry's rendering, however, reads, "Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and sceptics." [197] In time, even the benevolent minor deities would find themselves elbowed out by the burgeoning and newly confident human race. The nymphs, dryads, fauns, satyrs and sprites of the mountains, streams, meadows and oceans could not compete with our need and greed for land to quarry, farm and build upon. The rise of a spirit of rational enquiry and scientific understanding pushed the immortals further from us. The world was being reshaped as a home fit for mortal beings only. Today, of course, some of the rarer and more vulnerable mortal creatures that have shared the world with us are undergoing the same threats to their natural territories that cuased the end of the nymphs and woodland spirits. Habitat loss and species extinction have all happened before.Appearing on the BBC's Top Gear in 2009, Fry had lost a significant amount of weight, and explained that he had shed a total of 6 stone (84lb; 38kg). He attributed the weight loss to walking while listening to audiobooks. [219] Fry is between 6feet 4inches (1.93m) and 6feet 5inches (1.96m) in height. [220] [221] Fry has stated that he is allergic to champagne [222] and bumble bee stings. [223] Fry also has prosopagnosia ("face blindness"). [224] [225] On 1 February 2021, Fry supported the petition of two Holocaust survivors, Dorit Oliver-Wolff and Ruth Barnett who were asking to meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the 'genocide amendment' to the trade bill; this amendment would allow an independent parliamentary judicial committee to examine evidence of genocide. [198] In a tweet, Fry highlighted the plight of the Uyghurs. [199] Who dared break into your chamber? Tell me his name and I shall have him gelded, tortured, and strangled with his own intestines.”