Did I personally need another retelling of the Greek myths? No.

Did I want another retelling of the Greek Myths? Yes

Stephen Fry does a masterful job of balancing the sometimes dark and serious aspects of the Greek myths *cough* Zeus and Poseidon *cough* whilst also remaining light hearted enough to get you to power through those myths to the happy and sometimes utterly bizarre myths that the Ancient Greeks are famous for.

Stephen Fry also provides context when there are characters in the myths that share the same name as one of the divine or another character from the myths that people may know about just to clear away any confusion. On the subject of the footnotes, Fry has done a marvellous job in providing extra detail about how the names of not only how the Gods, Goddesses, Titans, Titanesses, Nyphms and the Primordials lend their names to some of English's modern words but also the heroes which I found interesting to learn about.

I'd say that Fry has done the Greek myths justice. There is one nitpick that I have with this book and it's about the story of Medusa and how Athena turned Medusa into a Gorgon to punish her instead of Poseidon but there is hardly any mention as to the fact that recently the face of Medusa was discovered to have been placed on the front of shelters for women as a symbol of protection because Athena turned her into a Gorgon to protect her from anymore unwanted advances, however I can see why Fry decided to go with the more popular and well known version of it.

Overall, I'd say that this is a brilliant book for those that want to learn about the Greek myths or for those like myself that wanted to read it as a refresher and to see what kind of spin that the legendary Stephen Fry put onto these familiar stories.