And dogs, hunting dogs anyway, not lap dogs which are useless. I don’t want dominion over towns or cities, but I do want to rule mountainsides and forests. And I want a knee-length tunic for hunting in, because long dresses are stupid and impractical. Hephaestus can make me a really special one as a birth present just like he did for Apollo, a silver bow with silver arrows please. Also a bow, which I notice he has a whole collection of but I don’t because I’m a girl which is totally unfair. Zeus: 'Yes, yes.er.I fully understand.'Īrtemis: 'Also, I want lots of different names, like my brother has.

Just the smallest things.'Īrtemis: 'I never ever want to have a boyfriend or husband or have a man touch me, you know, in that way -' Zeus: 'Several wishes? Goodness! Surely you have everything a girl could want?'Īrtemis: 'They aren't difficult wishes, daddy. You grant wishes to the smallest and least significant nymphs and water sprites. You know I love you with all my heart.'Īrtemis: 'Do you love me enough to grant me a wish?'Īrtemis: 'Hm. Zeus: 'Artemis, what a question! Your know I do. Whether you love Greek Myth or not, give Mythos a try: this might just be the one to fall in love with it! This one really doesn't need a long review. Being a collection of independent stories, one cannot expect the book to have a perfect flow, but, for me, being able to laugh, page after page, made up for everything. Probably like all the readers, what I loved the most about the book was Fry's humor this was hilarious through and through. 'Mother Maia here took me through the family tree last night. Had I ever been enrolled in any of the Greek Myth courses during school days, this would've been one of the most helpful starter-books. So, rather than a single continuous story, we have a complication of short-stories, attempting to make the reader familiar with every well-known 'God' we meet in Greek Mythology. Instead of picking a little part of the god tree, and extending a story from there, Stephen Fry starts at the very beginning and goes through the entire family tree of first entities. But this was a little different that that. I was expecting something similar with Mythos, a story based on a single god, or a group of connected ones. PJO changed all that, hooking me for life, by becoming one of my favorites genres to read about. It was something that I never wanted to, or had to, learn of, or read about before. 'It is easier to hide a hundred mountains from a jealous wife than one mistress.'īefore Riordan's PJO, I had zero knowledge about Greek Mythology. But when the narrative is hilarious like this, it gets even better!

what's not to love, with so much to explore. I love all things Greek Mythology: Chaos, Primordials, Titans, Gods, Demigods.

'That vacant twelfth throne has got my name on it.'

Stephen fry's mythos