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""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

""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

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Peter Meineck holds the endowed chair of Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University. Originally from South London, Meineck trained with the Royal Marines and later discovered the theater, working as a technician, designer, producer, and director, from rooms above pubs to the Royal National Theatre. He founded his own company, Aquila Theatre, to mount bold new stagings of the classics, including a public program that works with veterans and refugees through Greek drama. He holds a PhD in Classics, has published widely on ancient performance, and has been teaching mythology for nearly thirty years.

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