Five Stages of Greek Religion

City has more chance of taking in the whole world to its freedoms and privileges than a Nation

Either you have to admit that you are worshipping and flattering a being with no moral sense, because he happens to be dangerous, or else you have to invent reasons for his wrath against the people who happen to be struck.

The gods of most nations claim to have created the world. The Olympians make no such claim. The most they ever did was to conquer it.