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Were the ancient Greek gods and goddesses worshipped as if they were real entities?
In school, I learned a bit of ancient history, and I heard of the greatness of the Greek civilization by those times.
I remember of the ancient Greek mythology, but I was convinced that those characters have always been considered fictional, and that their pupose was just to enrich the local arts and literature.
(Just like the elves in Nordic folklore.)
However, from something I’ve read recently, it seems that this was the form of religion in Greece by those times, until the Christian faith had soread and overtrew it.
Is this true?
For the most part, the Greeks did worship their Gods as if they were real entities, just as the Christians worship their God. The temples they built and the sacrifices they made were very important to their culture. Some Gods, such as Bacchus could possibly be considered a God that was “created” to enrich local arts. The same thing went for the Romans. It wasn’t until the later Roman republic, when it was being inundated with religions for all over that they began to worship them as more of an “idea” rather than a real entity, which was right before the conversion of the empire to Christianity by Constantine.