Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

by Stephen Fry

pride comes before a fall.

Here Phaeton lies who in the sun-god’s chariot fared. And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.

there is a difference between guile and good sense, cunning and judgment, quick-wittedness and wisdom.

Painters, poets, and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind’s courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance, and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.