Greco-Roman gods

Thats a giant of a topic...are you wanting to discuss anything in particular?

I dont. IDK anyone who does either. For themost part the only exposure everyone I knw gets is what mainstream tv and lit does to the greeks. Roman gods hardly get any attention.

I know a couple of people who follow the Greek pantheon (one fellow follows the neo-Hellenistic path). Yeah, it's a neo-pagan thing, but I do know that there are reconstructionalists trying to bring the Greek rituals and whatnot back to surface. I don't know much about texts or anything. But some of these guys do take the Greek gods seriously (religiously and non-religiously).

So it is not a commonly asked question but there are still those who worship Greek gods and goddesses. I found a couple of articles below that talk a little about it. I have been doing research for tons of different kinds of religions for a paranormal book I am working on and the Greek gods are one of those. People often tend to lump the Greek religions into Paganism but it is not the same by any means. There are a few books at the library that talk about modern day worship of Greek gods but I cannot remember the titles at the moment. I will try and find them next time I am there if that would help.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/05/greece
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2007/03/greek-polytheism-ancient-gods

@BySharonNeslon, I'm curious as to how the worship of the Greek gods isn't considered Pagan. I'm not saying that it has to be Pagan. It just that I've never met someone who worships the Greek gods and didn't consider themselves Pagan.

I'm sorry for not being more clear. I didn't mean that people who worship Greek gods are not pagans but that there is an entirely different type of religion that does stem from the Greek but is not the same anymore. Modern day pagans worship a variety of different gods and goddesses but they normally are not the traditional Greek ones. There are a ton of different offshoots of the religion and each one is a little bit different.

"Pagan" is an umbrella term with a loose definition and isn't considered a single religion (and the general consensus is that paganism isn't religious at all), but some spiritual paths that fall under the term "Pagan" exclusively worship Greek gods (just as some Pagan paths exclusively follow the Celtic pantheon or Kemetic pantheon, etc. or no single pantheon at all).
Whether they see the gods as real, separate deities or they see them as metaphorical aspects of one source is a matter of opinion. To say that some pagans don't worship the same gods as ancient Greece did usually upsets some people.
There are the reconstructionalists who try to do as the ancient Greeks did in their worship and then there are those who worship the Greek gods but don't follow the ancient rituals and such. Are they the same gods as way back when? I would personally say yes. But in the end it's pretty much an opinion. Those who say they are worshiping the same gods of ancient Greece will argue with anyone who says they really aren't. But who's right? I say both.

It depends on the god/gods how they are to be dealt with anyway. If you don't do it the way they want you to then they will either ignore you or knock you on your as...um, butt. And they will let you know what they want. oh yeah

Interesting, I have been thinking about restoring the Proto-Indo-European Gods and Goddesses. The Neopagan movement is derived in a distant way from those, but the Greek and roman pantheons were much closer. I have gotten the impression that people aren't enthusiastic about sacrificing animals, and most people find it easier to mash all of the Gods into single entity.

I recently wrote a short story that featured Poseidon and Bacchus. It implied to downfall of monotheism.

In my personal spiritual practices, I work within the Hellenic Greek system. I guess I'd need the great big question broken into smaller questions to understand where you're going - the Greek and Roman gods were intensively interlinked with nearly every culture they contacted, especially in the Egyptian pantheon. Reading LaRousse's mythology might be a good place for you to start - the Egyptians were the first to practice any type of religious pluralism, in a "OK, you're all right, and just don't think too hard about it," approach that seemed to keep peace in that respect, at least. The Greeks adopted/merged Isis in particular, the Romans adopted from all cultures they contacted (except possibly the Celts) and had a few gods of their own that were personifications of the State or that evolved from Etruscan origin.