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

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Ceserani, David (13 October 2009). "Stephen Fry's Auschwitz blunder". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 17 October 2009. ITV axes Stephen Fry's 'Kingdom' ". Digital Spy. 9 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010 . Retrieved 11 November 2009. Mythos: A Trilogy". Edinburgh International Festival. 22 May 2019 . Retrieved 22 May 2019. [ permanent dead link] Gengenbach, Sarah (3 May 2019). "Stephen Fry brings Mythos Trilogy to London Palladium". London Theatre Direct . Retrieved 13 August 2019.

In 2017, the bird louse Saepocephalum stephenfryii was named after him, in honour of his contributions to the popularization of science as host of QI. [162] BBC Four Stephen Fry Night". BBC. 8 September 2007. Archived from the original on 29 March 2009 . Retrieved 25 January 2020. O'Hear, Steve (13 January 2011). "Stephen Fry to Pimp Pushnote To His 2m Followers". Tech Crunch . Retrieved 13 January 2011.My main criticism of this work is that it doesn’t feel whole. It doesn’t feel like a consistent narrative. It’s the sort of book you dip in and out of, as you read about a character and move onto the next. Mythos didn’t have this affect, it felt like it built on itself as it established some of the core systems behind the gods. These characters aren’t connected. They’re not supposed to be, but at times it felt like I was reading different sections from different books. The idea of Heroes and heroics only connects them loosely, as some are more heroic than others and some are even villainous, at least in part.

The Cambridge Footlights Revue - BBC Two England - 20 May 1982". Radio Times. No.3053. 13 May 1982. p.63 . Retrieved 24 May 2021. The heroes cleansed our world of chthonic terrors -- earthborn monsters that endangered mankind and threatened to choke the rise of civilisation. So long as dragons, giants, centaurs and mutant beasts infested the air, earth and seas we could never spread out with confidence and transform the wild world into a place of safety for humanity. Heroes is a follow-up to Stephen Fry’s original book of Greek mythology, Mythos, which I haven’t read but now plan to. Whereas Mythos focuses on the titans and gods of Greek mythology, Heroes focuses on the mortal heroes (as the name suggests). It includes sections on Perseus, Heracles, Bellerophon, Orpheus, Jason, Atalanta, Oedipus, and Theseus.The show marks the publication of Fry’s Heroes, the follow-up to Mythos, his 2017 compendium of tales from ancient Greece. Its opening half hour sets up his love affair with Zeus, Hercules and co, sketching out the cosmology for those of us bereft of a classical education. Not that Fry condescends: the several “as you probably knows” he inserts after telling us about this or that god or wing-heeled hero sound quite genuine. Fry, Stephen (July 2015). "Stephen Fry's Most Treasured Possession Is from P.G. Wodehouse". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 29 December 2017. Cambridge Footlights ( Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) In 2010, Fry was made a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, stating: "it is essential to nail one's colours to the mast as a humanist." [235] Later that year, Fry joined 54 other public figures in signing an open letter published in The Guardian stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom being a state visit. [236] On 22 February 2011, Fry was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. [237] [238]

Elton, Matt (29 June 2009). "Stephen Fry". Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 December 2013. Andreeva, Nellie (15 March 2016). "Stephen Fry To Co-Star In CBS Comedy Pilot 'The Great Indoors' ". In February 2018, Fry announced that he was recovering from an operation to treat prostate cancer, involving the removal of the prostate and 11 adjacent lymph nodes. He described the cancer as aggressive and said that early intervention had saved his life. [226] [227]A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best . . . the gods will be pleased' Times Stephen Fry interviews Tony Blair". 1 March 2007. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010 . Retrieved 23 May 2012. And no, I didn’t quite realize for a while that this was the second book in the series, but it was not detrimental to my enjoyment at all). Stephen Fry, The Spectator Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, reprinted as "Would I live in America? In a heartbeat", The Spectator, 9 May 2009, p. 28.