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Experience the terrible and endless fate of Prometheus after his betrayal of Zeus and shiver as Pandora opens her jar of evil torments. Witness Athena born from the cracking open of Zeus's great head and follow Persephone down into the dark realm of Hades. Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for our tragic, comic, fateful age. They are like us, only more so - their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above, from the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind.

Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.