Mythos & Heroes, by Stephen Fry

I feel Mythos is the stronger of the two, the characters detailed within are better and more interesting. 

Dealing with, as Fry does here, Gods and Titans, and demi-gods and humans and everything in between, I felt the focus on the humans was a little, well, boring at times. Each character was focused on in swift fashion, moving from escapade to escapade, without really getting to know them. 

With the Titans and the Gods in book 1, that was fine as they are more abstract ideas than fully formed consciousnesses. 

But when telling stories about humans, about people, we want to know the people, what drove them, more than a couple of lines about their ancestry and why their father/uncle/wife/whomever wants them dead. And why the god of the day has seen fit to favour them or smite them. 

Not to say Heroes is a bad book, it is still incredibly well written and eminently readable. I just preferred the first one. 

I would, however, read the hell out of a third one focusing on the Trojan War!