"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." - Christopher Markus, co-screenwriter of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame "The ancient Greeks were into myths--traditional tales, multiply manipulated--in a mega way. So too are today's devotees of the MCU, as Professor of Classics Peter Meineck so brilliantly demonstrates in a daringly pioneering book. Scholarship and storytelling have rarely been so well matched as in this treasure house of tangled techno-mythological tales." - Paul Cartledge, bestselling author of The Spartans and Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University "Endlessly malleable, changing and adapted with every telling, mythologies ancient and modern are windows into the human heart and mind. Peter Meineck works his magic untangling the threads that link the electric, modern Marvel Universe and its heroes with the mythic worlds of Homer, Euripides, Virgil, and more." - Annette Giesecke, author of Classical Mythology A to Z "Great Odin's beard! Like a superpowered Edith Hamilton, Peter Meineck guides 21st-century cape-and-cowl fans back millennia and through Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and even American esoteric mythologies to find the lines that connect Kirby to kleos and to reveal that, beyond the corporate demarcations that define Marvel, there is a storytelling multiverse that belongs to us all." - Sean Howe, author of the Eisner Award-winning Marvel Comics: The Untold Story "Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and their cohort stand as fantastic incarnations of great heroes from the past.

Stories of strength and hubris, ingenuity, and craft live on in comics. Meineck, a professor of classics at New York University, invites us to find new meaning in these myths. A lively introduction to world mythology, read through the lens of modern Marvel heroes." - Kirkus Reviews.