The second book in Stephen Fry's antique cycle . It is about heroes and their exploits. Fry brilliantly retells dramatic, funny, tragic stories. Jason and Hercules, Perseus and Orpheus, Oedipus and Bellerophon. Riddles, chases, battles, incredible puzzles, murders and rescues. "Heroes" is a story about those incredible feats, stupidities, acts of despair and bravery that we, mortals, are capable of if the going gets tough.
Heroes can be considered a sequel to Mythos, where I told the story of how everything began, the birth of the Titans and gods, and the creation of mankind. You don't need to have read Mythos to understand Heroes - and hopefully enjoy it - but many of the footnotes will refer you to the Mythos edition, to the relevant pages in it, and to the stories, characters, and mythical events told in the previous book, where you can read them in detail. Some people find the footnotes distracting, but many readers have told me that they enjoyed the page-by-page notes in the first book, so I hope you'll enjoy them here, too, depending on your mood. Yes, some Greek names can be a real headache - all those dilemmas: "K" or "S", "F" or "T", whether to have "-OS" or "-IS" or "-ES" at the end or not. Modern Greeks will be stunned by what we do with their wonderful names, and German, French, American and other readers will be confused by the options I have suggested. But these are just options, nothing more... whether you like Tethys or Tethys, Thanatos or Thanat, Theseus or Theseus - the characters and their stories do not change.
Author: Stephen Fry
Translation: Martynova Shashi
Artist: Bondarenko Andrey
Year of issue: 2024
Pages: 544
Publisher: Phantom Press
Cover type: hardcover
Dimensions: 220x150x40 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-818-6