Quote Originally Posted by kjn View Post
One could also turn it around, and say that Pérez took one of the richest and most important set of real-world mythology and its literature, and made it all into Wonder Woman's turf. He took some of the elements that Marston had, and elaborated on and treated them dead seriously and respectfully.
Marston's pantheon was more transformative though, his pantheon ruled over their namesake planets, had their cooler Latin names, used spaceships, and really were different characters all together (Mars had 'dukes' and slave armies, Venus and her butterfly girls). Perez's were a lot more generic, really indistinguishable from how the Greek pantheon is depicted in Disney's Hercules or even how they were shown in the Bronze Age.

Now, this mythology gave rise to issues later on because other writers fell into the rabbit hole of myth retellings, but it was not Pérez's fault: he just added a marvelous shiny toolbox to be used with Wonder Woman. It's not his fault that later writers went "shiny!".
But its still an aspect of his legacy. There is a direct line of thought between Perez's more mythological Wonder Woman and her becoming the daughter of Zeus.