Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 2)

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Audible.com: Audiobooks & Original Audio | Free book with 30 day Trial . Retrieved 28 April 2018– via Audible.co.uk. On 18 May 2018, Fry participated in the semi-annual Munk Debates in Toronto, Canada, where he argued against political correctness on the Con side of the topic "Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress..." alongside Jordan Peterson, and in opposition to Pro side represented by Michelle Goldberg and Michael Eric Dyson. [194] [195] During the debate, Fry paraphrased a famous sentence from the 1923 essay I Am Afraid, in which Old Bolshevik-turned- Soviet dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin denounced censorship in the Soviet Union. The original sentence reads, "True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics." [196] Fry's rendering, however, reads, "Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and sceptics." [197]Holocaust survivors demand meeting with PM over 'genocide amendment' as government faces Lord defeat". The Independent. 23 February 2021. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022 . Retrieved 1 March 2021. In 2003, Fry began hosting QI (Quite Interesting), a comedy panel game television quiz show. QI was created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panellist Alan Davies. QI has the highest viewing figures for any show on BBC Four and Dave (formerly UKTV G2). [58] [59] In 2006, Fry won the Rose d'Or award for "Best Game Show Host" for his work on the series. In October 2015, it was announced that Fry would retire as the host of QI after the "M" series, and he was replaced by Sandi Toksvig. [60] These stories as told by Fry are accessible and funny, and highlighting the strangeness of those myths. Because did I mention that Ancient Greeks were a weird bunch, at least in their stories? Bestiality ( have those heroes and gods and horny Ancient Greek ladies ever come across a supposedly handsome animal they didn’t want to mate with????), incest (determining some familial relationships and family trees could give you a major migraine for days), patricide/infanticide/everyone-else-cide, constant rapes, and - of course - Zeus fathering children via golden showers. Not to mention Heracles being “far from the brightest pixel on the screen” in his red mist of muscular rage — Heracles, “the offspring of a divine heteropaternal superfecundation”, whose endless labors took up a big chunk of the book; poor Oedipus and his mother — whose “Oedipal complex” that annoying Freud guy totally used to cover up his own weirdness; and Bellerophon and his strange relationship with his winged horse/brother (oh, Greek gods, you are so odd) Pegasus. A politically incorrect debate about political correctness". CBC Radio. 30 May 2018 . Retrieved 31 October 2018.

In February 2018, Fry announced that he was recovering from an operation to treat prostate cancer, involving the removal of the prostate and 11 adjacent lymph nodes. He described the cancer as aggressive and said that early intervention had saved his life. [226] [227] The law has no place in scientific disputes". Sense about Science. 7 October 2009. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009 . Retrieved 12 October 2009.I've been waiting for a while now to resume Stephen Fry's Mythology series. Mythos - the first book - had been a ton a fun, and this one's no different.