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The second book of the ancient cycle of Stephen Fry. It will talk about heroes and their exploits. Fry brilliantly retells dramatic, funny, tragic stories. Jason and Heracles, Perseus and Orpheus, Oedipus and Bellerophon. Riddles, chases, battles, incredible puzzles, murders and salvation. "Heroes" are stories about those incredible exploits, nonsense, acts of despair and courage, which we, mortals, are capable of, if we really bake.
"Heroes" can be considered a continuation of the book "Myth", where I outlined the story of the beginning of everything in the world, the birth of the titans and gods and the creation of mankind. To understand the book "Heroes and, I hope to get pleasure from it, it is not necessary to read" myth ", but many footnotes will send you to the publication" myth, that is, to the corresponding pages in it and to stories, characters and mythical events , set forth in the previous book, where you can get acquainted with them in all details. It seems to some that the footnotes are distracting, but many readers informed me that in the first book they liked the page notes, and therefore, I hope, in their mood and with pleasure, you will understand them here. Yes, some Greek names are able to confuse their heads in earnest-all these dilemmas: "K" or "C", "F" or "T", are needed at the end "-OS" or "-is" or" -s " or not. Modern Greeks will stun that we do with their wonderful names, and German, French, American and other readers from the options I have proposed are confused. But these are the options, no more ... you like Tefida or Tefia, Tanatos or Tanat, Tesia or the the Theze - the characters and their stories do not change from this