Will someone ask, say of, why to us next setting to of the Greek myths and stories? Firstly, old histories live in retelling, id est does not turn to stone and does not grow into a dogma. Secondly, Greek mythology is rich on material, that up to the second half of ХХ of century even for glorify of antiquity - artists, sculptors, poets, - at times caused a girlish bashfulness. Now finally time came по-взрослому, with interest and здорóво to perceive the myths of ancient Greeks - without notes and eyes taken aside. And to whom, however to Stephen Фраю, to do it? Thirdly, Фрай quite not tries to interpret the histories retold to them. And not because he does not have opinion of them, - he retells simply honestly, and dug in senses gives to be to the anthropologists and philosophers. Fourthly, yes, all these plots can be found in hundreds of the books sanctified to Ancient Greece. But Фрай again a bouquet, his book, makes from them is the family an ikebana. On flowers, branches, sticks and vases it is possible to look in a floral shop on a separateness, but humanity still makes and buys bouquets. To read this book, besides the obvious entertaining and отдыхательной values, costs and for the sake of that, to shake off a dust from child's remembrances about Куне and his "Legends and myths of Ancient Greece", to put in an order the familial trees of Gods and heroes, certainly a long ago getting entangled in your head, and also to remember мифогенную geography of Greece : where that was, in various directions hurried and where hidden. A book of Фрая is a wonderful method to get to Ancient Greece, and in concert and properly to have fun : style of Фрая is an unchanging guarantee of the real reader adventure.