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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
Enter the monstrous and magical world of Stephen Fry's Sunday Times best seller Heroes, brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Specsavers audiobook award.
Imagine sandals on your feet, a sword in your hand and the hot sun beating down on your helmet. Enter the world of Stephen Fry's Sunday Times best seller, Heroes.
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.
In this companion to his best-selling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales.
Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.
Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.
Critic Reviews
"A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best...the gods will be pleased." (Times)
"Assured and engaging. The pace is lively, the jokes are genuinely funny." (Guardian)
"An Olympian feat. The gods seem to be smiling on Fry - his myths are definitely a hit." (Evening Standard)
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- harsha
- 22-04-19
Better than Mythos!
I loved this book! Stephen Fry has done an amazing job, not just with the writing, but with the narration as well!
He is such a great storyteller. Another thing that I found enjoyable in this book is how Stephen Fry spiced the book with so many small facts and tit bits of information about these stories. I kept looking at the world map, whenever he mentioned seas and cities that I hadn't heard of before. I have to say, this book has improved my geography as well. Now I know why the agean sea is called the agean, why the Atlas mountains are called that and much more...
An extremely enjoyable listen. I can't wait to get my hands on the third book!
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- Gurpreet
- 03-01-20
Most excellent audiobook experience
Stephen Fry’s Mythos and Heroes are a milestone in audiobook performance. Excellent writing and narration.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-11-19
Simply Heroic!
Lord Stephen Fry has indeed done a heroic task of bringing together all the legends of Greek heroes. The names often confuse you but the storyline, that which you have heard while growing up, keeps you bound to the book. And for an audiobook, Lord Stephen's narration is simply masterful. At times, when you are losing the story, his dramatic narration does the magic.
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- Rishabh
- 27-03-21
Stephen Fry is a global treasure!
The story telling and it's contents are on point! Thank you Mr Fry for this
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- Ketan P.
- 26-12-22
Relentlessly exciting
So well written and narrated.. My introduction to Greek Heroes couldn't have been more simpler and more exciting.
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- T satyanarayana
- 25-10-22
Good
I enjoyed greatly by listening this book. Really great listening. How this writer could gather so many Greek mythology stories really unimaginable. very good performance
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- Priyanka Reddy
- 12-10-22
Truly heroic in writing and narrating
Such a wonderful narration of the Greek mythology. An absolutely must have and must read book for all the mythology lovers.
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- Sasha
- 18-08-22
Stephen Fry is a master
I have read Stephen Fry’s Mythos before and this is just as good as it was. His narration is top-class and this audiobook is perfect nighttime leisure.
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- LizJ
- 26-04-22
Highly Recommended
Exceptional as always!! Listening to Mr. Fry is the only way to enjoy this content which could have easily overwhelmed a novice in Greek myth.
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- Nishant Bhagat
- 03-03-22
A great follow up to the first audible
The second book in the Mythos series lives up to the high standards of the first. I have chosen to 'listen' to this on audible as I am a Stephen Fry fan. His reading just takes the story telling to a different level.
No matter how many times I have heard the stories of these heroes, there is always something more to know. The treatment of the stories matters so much here. If I have to introduce Mythology to the younger generation, I would highly recommend the 'Mythos' template across cultures. It speaks to them in a tone they would identify with without taking anything away from these stories.
Highly recommend this series to one and all!!
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- Silvia
- 03-11-18
Wonderful
Truly enjoyable, both the story and the narration are perfect. This book goes deeper and more detailed into ancient Greek stories than any other book I've ever read. Surely recommend to anyone interested in Greek mythology.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-03-19
Pure magic. Stephen Fry is transcendent.
Both the story and narrative are excellent! It was a very special experience to revisit the ancient Greek universe. I wish Stephen Fry could have been my history teacher. And English teacher. And art teacher. And... well, you get the idea
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- Yulia Nikolaeva
- 29-12-18
An engaging continuation of Mythos
This book's subject is the lives and deeds of Greek heroes. The narration is (as always) brilliant, and the plot is most engaging. Recommended to anyone struggling with original Greek sources on heroes but interested in Greek hero myths. The stories are spiced with humour and drama but remain faithful to the original. Fry sometimes offers insight into how different heroes reflected changes in Greek society over time.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-20
An Exceptional Performance
Stephen Fry’s telling of the quests and sometimes unfortunate adventures of Greek Heroes and Demi-gods is unlike any other in the category. Whilst not a comprehensive collection of scholarly work, these tales are filled with a brilliant balance between wit, humour and mythology, as well as a perfect performance from Fry himself.
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- Minol De Silva
- 09-03-19
Loved it!!!
Found it fascinating to listen, put a slot of colour to the stories I have read and heard on Greek myths.
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- Troy Corcoran
- 30-01-23
Another incredible book by Stephen Fry
For someone that is not an avid reader, these books are so fun to read(listen to). Love his first book, Mythos and excited for the third, Troy.
Stephen Fry helps guide those who prefer audiobooks through the story with all the details through his voice and narrative.
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- MR M B HENDERSON
- 19-01-23
Stephen Fry is my hero
Great story telling and beautifully read. Mr Fry continues to entertain the listener or reader with his enthusiasm and knowledge.
Many thanks.
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- Nerine Dorman
- 12-01-23
Simply fabulous!
Stephen Fry has got one of those honey-gold voices I just want to distill and pour directly into my brain. If ever there is one human being on this planet who is so overwhelmingly talented and absolutely fabulous, and who deserves every honour accorded to him, it's this man. And the audiobook for Heroes further underpins my opinion about Stephen Fry.
Anyone who's worth their salt in terms of languages and literature should have at least a passing familiarity with the Greek myths. I had a module at university that focused primarily on the mythology, so I was treading familiar territory when I gave Heroes a whirl. And while a bewildering array of gods and goddesses, nymphs and monsters feature prominently in this hefty tome, it's the heroes who are, ahem, well, the heroes of this book. Well, duh.
From Jason and Perseus, to Atalanta and Hercules, we follow a bunch of ancient Greek luminaries on their quests for golden fleeces, the slaying of terrible monsters, and a quest for power and glory. Fry delivers the tales of derring-do, wonder, and tragedy all with his singular wit and fantastic sense for the dramatic. If you've ever encountered anyone who's complained that reading the primary sources is dull, the rather put them onto Fry. You'll thank me later, and if anything, this might yet inspire folks to dip into the original texts.
The old Greek myths have it all – epic quests, tragedies, dramatic love affairs, adventures, horror. In fact, I'd hazard to say, that modern fantasy fiction owes a vast debt to these great classics. And it's been a special treat to have them brought to life by the author himself. I could probably carry on heaping praise on this book until the cows come home to roost, and I'm most certainly going to pick up the rest of the titles in this series that Fry has been working on.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-01-23
Just great.
I wish it would never have ended. Can you dig up some more Heroes for us?
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- Anonymous User
- 25-12-22
good book
greek mythology good Zeus good I love greek mythology and Stephen fry is a good narrator
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- Simon
- 02-11-18
Ancient Myths from a Modern Legend!
This is an audiobook that I simply can't recommend enough. One of British entertainment's legends in Stephen Fry dusts off these ancient tales and breathes a contemporary form of life and colour into them in his own unique style. It's a mixture of description, a little conjecture and of course the lion's share being taken by these grand old tales themselves. They take front and center stage and while Fry cleverly interweaves background and information it never feels like anything other than being told an engaging story. Of course being Stephen we also get charming nuggets of etymology thrown into the mix as well.
Using a fairly informal, almost irreverent approach, for example he pronounces the names of people and places as comes most easily to him, Fry brings these stories to life like few others ever could. The Gods, heroes and of course villains are given an often-missed humanity and character that is both charming and humorous.
In fairness, although clearly a lot of personal research went into these re-tellings it's neither a comprehensive collection, more of a Greatest Hits if you will, nor is it a hugely scholarly work. However, if like me you mainly have a passing knowledge of the Greek Myths or you want to dip your toe into them for the first time this is a fabulous place to start.
My favourite has always been Jason and his Argonauts ever since watching Don Chaffey's 1963 film as a boy. Even with this one though, the one that I'm most familiar with I learned more about the back story and how the plot developed and has been toyed with than I ever have before. Then, right at the end Stephen describes "Mythos" as a trilogy which I wasn't aware of so hopefully to match his shows there will be one more of these which will cover the Trojan war and its aftermath. I can't wait!
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- Anonymous User
- 28-03-19
Great Book, Shame about the poor navigation
Mythos was my first audiobook and was in many ways the perfect place to start. Heroes was my second audiobook and for some reason the creators didn't see fit to carry over the use of chapter titles or book sections which were so helpful in the first book. I don't really understand it as it can't possibly require that much more work just to denote each chapter with a title rather than a number. It, unfortunately, discourages relistening to the book and is in many ways more necessary in this second book as the stories unfold separately following different heroes and is less chronological than Mythos. My hope is that this will somehow at some point be fixed and that they return to chapter names for the third book. If all you care about it the story then, by all means, go ahead and buy this audiobook, i just felt i would voice my opinion on this small point of criticism.
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- Calum
- 29-11-18
Pantomime accents nearly ruined Heroes - FryFan
I love Stephen Fry and I loved Mythos.
However the accents for the characters in Heroes are so off putting.
The young Perseus sounds like a cast member from Last of the Summer Wine.
Then the Irish and the Welsh etc etc. Really made it hard for me to finish this one.
The stories are all great and it truly feels like a sequel to Mythos. I just should've read it.
I'm just a 26 year old who likes a good bedtime story.
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- Somebody
- 03-11-18
WOW!! Totally worth it
Amazing book with fantastic stories and my I say Mr Fry, what a story teller he is perfect in everything and I definitely suggest mythos
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- Wil
- 15-04-19
Avoid audiobook - buy book
Stephen Fry makes Perseus sound like the village idiot...His story telling is first class, his accents ruined it for me.
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- David Smith
- 01-05-19
Rather disappointing
I love the stories from Greek mythology but I can’t help but feel underwhelmed with this one. I agree with others that are unhappy with the accents chosen for a lot of the characters. Also, I just couldn’t loose myself in some of the stories like I usually do... and the omission of the Trojan war was annoying - I can only hope this huge tale has been left so we can do a whole book on it!
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- Simon Jon Horsfall
- 15-01-21
Unnecessary Accents ruined the story.
Accents ruined it. Mythos was great with Stephen Fry voice just as it is, sorry but stories were ruined. Not for me I’m afraid.
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- weeksong
- 05-04-19
The heavy Irish and Scottish accent is overdone
I feel like I'm listening to an afternoon radio drama. All the high pitched squeaking and thick Irish accents does not make a good Greek mythology reading/listening.
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- Simon Boon
- 12-09-19
Not a patch on Mythos
The bizarre decision to put such awful accents to the characters made this audio book almost unlistenable. I have enjoyed all of Mr Fry’s audio books save for this one.
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- nathan
- 19-03-19
great listen though overacting at points
enjoyable and very entertaining take on the Classic greek myths, though some of the accents are a bit much (Greeks are Welsh, Irish and Scottish? I am greatful to know Perseus is from Yorkshire!) recommended regardless!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-11-18
amazing from start to end!
absolute pleasure listening to this book. As always Stephen Fry delivered another great book. looking forward to the Trojan war.
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- Jack
- 25-12-18
I wish I could give it 6 stars
Wonderful whimsical story telling by Stephen Fry at his best. I enjoyed it even more than Mythos and I cant wait to read the third installment.
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- David
- 12-12-18
brilliant stories and narration!
i dont know how many times Fry made me laugh out loud as i sat in a train or walked along the road. the accents...Welsh, Scots, yorkshire to name a few...were brilliant. cant wait for the next book on the Trojans.
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- ellie picone
- 10-12-18
Great bedtime story telling
Loved the flow and rhythm and content and Stephen’s reading of it
Loved the asides and connections to the present day
Loved the explanations of relationship and anachronisms
Loved it all!
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- Reviewer
- 23-11-18
Perfect gift and a delight to listen to
Worth every second. Beautifully read. Wonderful retelling of heroic myths. Can’t wait for the next book in Stephen Fry’s series...
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-12-18
Only multiple listening will do this justice
Steven fry could adapt a take-away menu to a novel and I would listen to it on repeat.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-18
always a pleasure
I adore this series, and it's always a pleasure when I can tune out the word and enjoy this fabulous book.
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- Leazette
- 10-12-18
awesome. it has been a pleasure to listen to this
awesome. it has been a pleasure to listen to this book and I hope there are more
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