He does this with all the wit, charm and good humour that anyone familiar with Fry’s public persona would be familiar.Īnd that’s a good place to start a discussion about this book. In Mythos Stephen Fry retells the Greek myths and tries to make sense of the chronology, and the meaning and cultural impact the myths have had on our own civilisation. Nevertheless, with any sort of familiarity it is easy to see certain patterns emerge from myth: repetitions of themes or even stories. Whether it’s been through Hollywood movies, snippets of stories here and there, or reading myths from one culture or another, the result tends to be a familiarity with a lot of names and incidents from myth, but not necessarily a coherent understanding as to how the stories relate or even a coherent timeline. I don’t know what kind of exposure others have to myth, but I know mine has been fairly piecemeal over the years.
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