Myth. Greek myths in retelling

Someone will ask, they say, why do we need the next arrangement of Greek myths and legends? Firstly, old stories live in retelling, that is, they do not stomake and do not turn into dogma. Secondly, Greek mythology is rich in material, which until the second half of the twentieth century, even among the sungators of antiquity - artists, sculptors, poets - sometimes caused girlish bashfulness. Now finally the time has come in an adult way, with interest and healthy to perceive the myths of the ancient Greeks - without bills and allotted to the eyes. And to whom, if not Stephen Frans, to do it? Thirdly, Fry does not try to interpret the stories he hesitated. And not because he has no opinion about them - he simply honestly retells, but delights in meaning to anthropologists and philosophers. Fourth, yes, all these stories can be found in hundreds of books on ancient Greece. But Fry reinstall the bouquet of them, his book is a kind of ikebana. You can look at the flowers, branches, sticks and vases separately in a flower store, but humanity still makes up and buys bouquets. Read this book, in addition to the obvious entertaining and restraint, is also worth shaking dust from children"s memories of the kun and its "legends and myths of ancient Greece", put in order the family tree of the gods and heroes who have long been confused in your head , as well as recall the mythogenic geography of Greece: where was what was, who ran where and where he was hiding. Fry"s book is a great way to get into ancient Greece, and at the same time have fun as it should be: Fry"s style is an invariable guarantee of a real reader adventure