Classics and Comics

Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman''s Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules'' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make imp...