Stephen Fry’s Troy was the best of the Mythos series I’ve read, and I’m now in a position where I need to find a new kind of audiobook to pick up as I’ve exhausted Fry’s mythological retelling. Troy retold the Trojan war, discussing the events before the Iliad and how the war begun in addition to all the politics of it (which immediately earns a book more prestige in my eyes), retold the events of Homer’s Illiad, and then the shocking scenes of the Trojan horse and the sack of Troy post Illiad. It shone above Heroes and Mythos as Troy wasn’t many stories woven together in a narrative form, but one concise story of the Trojan war, which vividly depicts the experience of both sides and though as history has asserted to us I naturally sided with the Greeks, there was an emphasis on both sides of the city walls and the humanity of each soldier. The classical emphasis on honour of one’s soldiers really shone through in Fry’s writing, naming and exploring the lineage of each documented fallen man. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my fast-paced journey through mythology presented in Fry’s trilogy and it’s added dozens of books to my TBR, sparking an interest in mythology that I never thought I had. I will be impatiently waiting for ‘Odysessy’ in 2024.