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Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry

12 reviews

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Rip Oedipus, you would have loved comedy central roasts and 23 & me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Incest, and War

Minor: Sexual content and Xenophobia

adastrame's review

funny informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I enjoyed this sequel to Mythos much more than its predecessor, probably because it tells a much more coherent narrative (or tries to, at least). Mythos was sometimes random and allover the place and hard to follow. This book, however, focuses on a number of Greek heroes and tells their stories in a more or less coherent manner (but still, these myths are very convoluted and intertwined). 

I learned A LOT from reading this book. Most of my knowledge of Greek mythology was superficial, and this really helped me to get a deeper picture of these myths, and especially of how they still shape our society, and very much also our language. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Incest, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

voldycat's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Slavery and Suicide

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: War

lucyatoz's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I listened to Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures read by the author, which I borrowed as a audiobook from my local library. I love Stephen Fry's distinctive voice and his genuine insight and passion for the subject matter really brought Heroes to life for me.

Heroes is the 2nd book in the Mythology genre that I have read written by Stephen. I still adored and appreciated the way that the stories and myths were told, very much tongue in cheek! However, I found this one to be a denser read than Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold, with longer chapters and more mortals and gods names to learn.

I give this a 4 star review. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and War

javafenn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Stephan Fry is a phenomenal story teller! His retellings of the Greek myths and how they influenced (or were just straight up taken and had names changed) other religions, primarily Christianity is truly fascinating. I enjoy his dramatizations of how conversations between heroes and gods occurred and I really loved how he expressed the absolute lack of logic his subject(s) had. This book expands on the first of the trilogy, Mythos. Heracles, Jason, Oedipus and more take center stage with Stephan Fry narrating his own book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual content, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

rzh's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

an endearing, deeply informative and riveting retelling of some of the best ancient greek myths. i loved the footnotes and the background information, and fry occasionally taking creative license with each story adds colour and dimensions to the stories that black-and-white recountings or translations do not. the genealogical sections were at times hard to follow but fry does make it about as clear as possible! really really enjoyed this. 4 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and War

strawberrylaces02's review against another edition

adventurous informative lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

charleshasalibrary's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

beholderess's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Cannibalism, and Sexual harassment