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Heracles, who had incredible strength, killed his wife and children in rage.

Perseus beheads Medusa and kills sea monster Cetus. Each of them teach us different lessons and add a new layer to our understanding of history and Ancient Greece.Īs a brief refresher for those who might not have spent half of their childhood thinking about the Greek gods and heroes, let me try to briefly summarise. Fry takes us on eight journeys with eight heroes: Perseus, Heracles, Bellerophon, Orpheus, Jason, Atalanta, Oedipus, and Theseus. More detail, more violent and explicit content, more wit. Heroes is the grown-up version of the cassettes I used to love. This year, I purchased the audiobook of Stephen Fry’s Mythos, which tells the stories of the Greek gods, to listen to during long lockdown walks. When I was a few years older, I was hooked on the Percy Jackson audiobooks. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.As a child, I listened to retellings of the Ancient Greek myths on my cassette player over and over again. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI.

As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile.

Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.