Did the average greek actually believe in their pantheon, and

The illiterate normies certainly believed.

Youd pray to a war god and sacrifice a bull as a king to ease anxiety over a coming conflict for example to ease nerves and increase performance. Smoking the pot yourself rather than paying for a religous man to do it for you works just as well though. Fuck humanity is stupid

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He was the educated elite, though. I'm certain most of the average Joes and Joseys believed.

Funny because in the Laws Plato suggested the death penalty for those who don't believe in the gods. I guess he, like Voltaire, knew that eternal pleb needed to believe in gods in order not to utterly destroy society via weaponized nihilism.

>Hurr durr I have everything I want but life is meaningless, let's stop having children and invite millions of barbarians into our land to replace us

ITT: fedora fantasies

They were definitely religious.

They were pretty religious.

Some of the educated elite flirted with various forms of monolatry or monotheism though, usually by establishing Zeus' role as head of the pantheon as even grander than the myths.