I've noticed that a lot of the ancient greek/roman authors

>>2618501
>believe
It is hard to explain ancient "belief" systems to modern people. They didn't believe in it in the same way as many modern people believe in religion. Mythology is a completely distinct thing. They didn't believe in the same way as someone might believe in God today, they believed that the gods existing explained things that went on around them, and just in case they did exist, would try to assuage their emotions and gain their favour by offering them libations and offerings. It's almost like a form of doublethink. They offered something for a community to rally around, to help explain things in a time when it was difficult to understand why shit like earthquakes and volcanos would happen, to allow people to fabricate elaborate backstories for their people, the lands that they lived in and the natural environment around them to give them purpose and to give them comfort.

^This guy explained it rather well. Religion was more like a mix of superstitions, and their own culture. People seemed to have varied on how literal they took it but it seemed as if there was no such thing as "fanaticism". Only the priests did that and it was kind of amusing for the people.

Personally I like how religion was in ancient times compared to the cancer of abrahamic literalism with their rulebooks and commandments. But it appeals to the lowest common denominator since its simple and easy to grasp, as well as most importantly, universal.

>>2618630
Would this apply to Judaism as well?

>>2618630
>Personally I like how religion was in ancient times compared to the cancer of abrahamic literalism with their rulebooks and commandments
Nice to know you know nothing of early Christianity, nor Christianity, just Protestant heresy.

>>2618501
The most important thing to understand about Classical myths is that there was no orthodoxy, i.e. there was no text that was the central authority, the true text to them. Not even the Theogony, Iliad and Odyssey, as they were supplemented or told an alternative account of by later works or contemporary local myths, which all merged together.