Twelve Greek gods overlooking classical Greece from atop mount Olympus. Their anger was capable of boiling the oceans, electrifying the sky's, or splitting the earth. They seduced mortal women and castrated there enemies. From Zeus to Apollo, Poseidon to Demeter, the gods and goddesses where all powerful and unpredictably fickle. Th great writer Homer dared to mock the gods. Yet, from Eleusis to Athens, the Greek people built magnificent temples and cult site. Ceremonies of birth and death where played out and sacrifices where made as the mystery's where celebrated. propitiating the gods was a duty with lyrical devotion and savage passion. Why did the people of ancient Greece accept the dysfunctional, dazzling pantheon of deity's? Was there power political or or divine? Did they represent the great and brutal warrior kings or where they genuin spiritual beings? Or is there mythology just larger than life.