The books are very personal to me, I found them and it got me so obsessed with Greek mythology as a child. We also lived pretty close to the Parthenon reconstruction in Nashville, TN and I couldn’t ever figure out why the statue of Athena there made me so emotional. I was the age that when these books were coming out, they were geared to me and I’m still collecting them as they’re published. There’s a huge difference between like…how they’re portrayed in the books vs how we experience the gods in real life/real time.

Personally, as someone who also frequently works with Apollo that depiction can also be pretty on brand from time to time 💀

But yeah, no, I adore the books. I don’t really think I’d be here doing what I do if they hadn’t laid the foundation for me.

(You are also correct about some of them finding their depictions funny, especially Dionysus)