Let's Suppose For A Minute That Zeus Actually Existed...

[Canary42]

...and he appeared in today's world, what would he make of today's Greeks, their big debts and deficits, the Troika and all their wealth etc...

I would imagine he would probably issue a few thunderbolts.

( with apologies to Ratter )

[Mosaic]

He'd not bother a jot, be too busy appearing to various attractive women in the guise of a bull. He'd probably feel sniffy at the absence of sacrifices made for him of late but he had plenty in his heyday, happen he's still using the leftovers for sandwiches.

[Marshwarble]

Zeus wasn't in charge of thunderbolt!

[Baldric]

///Zeus, God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice///

[Baldric]

Oops, missed off this line,

///His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak///

[Baldric]

Oh, and this one

///As a token of their appreciation, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt, or lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia///

[shoota]

Didn't someone name a canal after him?

[Baldric]

Quite some time after him I believe!

[douglas9401]

If you knew Zeusie like I know Zeusie.......

[sandyRoe]

He'd wonder how they lost their marbles.

[Baldric]

We didn't nick 'em, we've got a receipt!

[Marshwarble]

Would he able to understand them though? And where did he go in the intervening years? Does that mean Pandora was the first woman, not Eve? Could be trouble here.

[Mosaic]

Undoubtedly the Abrahamic confection called 'Eve' appears at a very late point in the party. The earliest goddess-like personifications of idealised women appear around 35,000 years ago. The organised worship of idealised women goddesses like Ishtar and Isis date to around 2000 BC. Diana-worship is at least as old as the Abrahamic version of events. And I mean the gore-covered, testicle-necklace-wearing Diana, not the gadabout princess of same name.

[atalanta]

Pandora was framed.

[wildwood]

Does this mean that Zeus didn't really exist? The Mythologies seem to make more sense to me than the supposedly accepted religions.

[Mosaic]

They can all exist, if you want them to.
A very sane portrayal in Terry Pratchett's 'Small Gods'

[Marshwarble]

Well there is a Pantheon in Rome dedicated to all forgetten Gods, so it's not original to Pratchett.

[Mosaic]

You need to read 'small gods' Marshie. No claims made of originality, but many sane perspectives on how beliefs come and go.

[Marshwarble]

I have read Small Gods but the Pantheon still used to worship all Gods!