Historian Honestly Reviews Stephen Fry's Mythology Books
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Unsurprisingly, Stephen Fry is perfect. I literally have nothing bad to say about him nor Mythos. What's wonderful about Fry's retellings is that every time he chooses a version of the ancient myth, he clarifies it by stating exactly which source he got it from, and why it's the best version for his collection. For that reason alone you simply cannot fault him. Yes there are differing versions of every single story Fry tells within these pages, but that fact he gives his readers references constantly throughout the narrative means that we can go back and check these tales in the original writings. And who knows? Maybe a newbie to mythology has seen those footnotes and decided to go buy their own copy of Hesiod or Homer - or even Ovid! - just to see what words Fry was building off of! What a wonderful thought.
So yeah, he's perfect. Amazing. Fantastic. I will pay good money for MYTHOS, HEROES, TROY and all his books surround greek mythology in the future.
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Literally what happened to me. Read Mythos, thought “omg”, and like 5 or 6 years later I have a massively library of myths and retellings. 👍🏽
As you should!!!
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It was definitely a "re-jumping" start for me! Loved these stories as a kid, love all of Fry's books, and love this show. Keep going!
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I’ve just recently finished listening to the series on Audible, Stephen Fry narrating his own work is brilliant, you get the humour and serious tones when necessary, making it, for me, a heightened experience than reading to yourself. All three are incredible so I had to have the hardcover physical copies too! 10/10 for me.
Love your book reviews Erica, my audible is full of your recommendations
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I got the illustrated Mythos for Christmas! So excited to read it😍 it’s stunning xx
Isn’t it just!!!!
I found out about these books from your channel! Being American I kind of knew who Stephen Fry was, but had no idea he was so knowledgeable about the Classics! And the books are amazing volumes. Everything from the art to the page layout is just so well done. (And the Footnotes! Oh, the lovely footnotes and Appendices). I really, really hope the public libraries and school libraries have tons of copies. I was lucky enough to find a copy of “Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of Greek Myth” by Bernard Evslin when I was 8, and Mr. Fry’s works were the first to capture that feeling of reading them again for the first time.
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Literary critic, Northrop Frye, has noted that 'The gods and heroes of the old myths fade away and give place to people like ourselves'.
Oh my god I didn't know there's a pretty version of mythos!! Gonna have to get myself a copy, thanks for the vid! I love your videos so much and your whole channel is massively underrated
Thank you 🥹🙏
11:35 you convinced me, I am getting a copy of mythos: thanks for the video, you’re enthusiastic mindset lit an intrinsic interest for Mythos. In the university, I was a religious studies major. It sounds all very familiar.
I hope you enjoy it!!!!
I read Mythos and Heroes but wanted to pick up the illustrated edition. Wanted to check out a review and then came across your channel. Subbed when I saw all those great video's! I need a few nights off to watch 'm al haha! Awesome to see that this is a nice starting point to deepen my knowledge about ancient history and greek mythology :D
Ideal for the summer vacations, thanks!!!
You’re so welcome!
I was looking for a book to get my second grader into reading. A coworker suggested Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. We got the first book The Lightning Thief and we enjoyed it very much. I knew Stephen wrote Heros but found Mythos in the public library, so I checked it out and fell in love with Greek mythology. Can’t wait to read Heros and Troy. Thanks for your review!
I learned most of these myths in school, in Italy, as a kid. I read Ovid. I read the Iliad and Odyssey in Latin and italian (for some reason, maybe to prepare us for the Aeneid?) I also read and listened to various translations in italian and English, but the Fry's books are in a class of their own. So simple, I feel comfortable suggesting them to my friends that know nothing about it, yet so beautifully written and researched to impress even jaded classicists.
I can't wait for the Odyssey. I didn't know he was working on it (but I suspected as much) and I am really looking forward to it.
I am a 35 year old, Native American from the southern American states who shares many of the typical political beliefs that would be expected. Stephen Fry is one of my heros. I love his story, his acting and comedic sketches from his show with Hugh Laurie, and most of all, his books and narrative works from the Harry Potter series. My little sister convinced me to listen to the Potter audio books and not having read many books my entire 29 years, I fell in love. It's childish, but I enjoyed them. Listening to his Mythos series got me into etymology, which then got me into attempting to learn greek. It's a beautiful language and many of our words are ancestors of theirs, obviously. He was a badass for not taking the Knighthood, but before his life ends, I hope he will be known as Sir Stephen Fry.
Thank you for the review Erica and I'm ecstatic to learn of his new books on the Odyssey. You've made my week!
Thank you SO MUCH for watching! ✨
I love Fry I have Mythos and Heroes, added to my Cambell collection but didn't know of an illustrated version, thanks ordering now ;)
Keep up the exceptional work, Erica 👍
Thank you :)
Dammit I love Mythos, definitely a jumping off point for me!
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Troy is a great example of SunTzu's element of surprise in Art of War!
Great video, very informative !
Thank you 🙏
I would really like you to make a video about The Book of One Thousand and One/Arabian Nights. I know it's not in the themes of the channel but it's one of my favourite classics in universal literature. Besides, I've read it contains many elements of Odyssey, like Simbad's encounter with a cyclops-type monster and the structure of stories within stories. I've read somewhere that Penelope has also been compared to Scheherezade.
I have only read Mythos a couple of years ago and liked it - never got around to the rest. Now adding at least Troy to my reading list (while reading the Iliad atm)
Let us know how you find them!
Long ago when I started to read greek mithology I came across with thee books, Apollodorus´s library , Antoninus Liberalis Metamophoses and mitlogogia grecorromana of Jean humbert.
Excellent review Erica! youre doing the lords (polytheistic lords) work! bless your heart! (texas slang)
Thank you, Tyler!!! ❤️✨
I’m currently reading Mythos, about half way through after two weeks. The stories are so nicely contained that it doesn’t make me feel the need to rush. Also having heard or read 97% of these it’s great to see some sort of possible chronology thrown together for them.
Funny enough I really started liking myths after reading Percy Jackson which is a book Stephen Fry makes reference to when speaking of the sons of Poseidon. So I now consider Percy Jackson as a true modern myth. 😂
Hahaha fair enough! Percy Jackson deserves it tbh 😂
How does the series by Stephen Fry compare to Classical Mythology by Annette Giesecke and Mythology by Edith Hamilton?
Anyone has an opinion?
Question: My desire is to read the classics in the original. I am currently learning latin with Wheelock and Lingua Latina. Does anyone know of a similar book like Lingua Latina for Ancient Greek? Thanks
I actually don't recommend buying these books... because there're are the audiobooks! THAT HE READS! It's a 10 hour long bedtime story read to you by the author himself!!
I'm personally waiting for the next amazon sale and am going to go ham and buy them all.
So many people seem to really LOVE the audiobooks!
Thank you for three 3️⃣ more homework books 📚 miss teacher 👩🏫 here is a apple 🍏 lol 😂😂I can’t wait to read them all as I love ❤️ reading 📖 his work prayers and blessings to you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
Can you suggest a good translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses?
The newest one (which I think is wonderful) is by Stephanie McCarter :)
Ovid didn't write the Metamorphoses to make the Empire laugh 😅
He has the 4th book of this collection the odyssey coming out in about 6 weeks
It’ll be released the 26th of September ✨
i would cry if i stood in front of Stephen Fry too!
At least it’s not just me!!! 😂
Hello, new subscriber here. I really like your reviews! Can you also do a review of Medusa's Sisters by Lauren J. A. Bear please?
I’ll add it to the list 🤓
Love Stephen fry! 🤘😁🤘❤️🏛
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Holy hell!! You are insanely beautiful!! 😍😍
On the chance of sounding like an uninformed snob, wouldn't it be best, if historical research on say ancient Greek topics is conducted in ancient Greek, to get as close to the source material as possible.
Not that Oxford curated books aren't great and all, just seems a little less committed.
The Pantheon is really pretty btw, one can only imagine what it looked like before they filled the alcoves with Christian saints.
Lol are those both a hardcover and a softcover of the same book? 😂 ❤
Yes, but one of them is the illustrated Mythos:D
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I don't know about facts and truth but I know a absolute truth that you're pretty