Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86191-20161002203416/@comment-86191-20161011200530

Okay-

"In real history, the Alexandrian Greek Empire overran the Persian and Egyptian and Babylonian and etc empires, and all the gods and myths that were native thereunto."

This occurred in the Third Century BC after the Olympians "had retreated from Earth" and were already known by their Roman names. The Olympians were chronologically "trafficking" Earth between 1700 BC before the Flood of Deucalion (during the reign of Thutmosis III in Egypt) and 1100 BC (twenty years after the Trojan War). I know we can't place a date frame for fictional events like when Darkseid altered history, but I would presume it was during a time when the Olympians still had an active role in the lives of their worshippers.

"But in real history, despite these conquests, the mythologies of all those empires didn't go away, or get subsumed into later mythologies, or require any geographic solution to account for them."

Correct! But the Egyptian gods weren't interchangeable with the gods of the Greeks. Nor were the Mesopotamian Gods or Gods of the East. The Greeks and Romans did however drag home gods and incorporate the rites of foreign gods in Rome. Mithras-worship occurred in Rome, but he wasn't a Roman god.

My original point is and still is "there was no point to split the Olympian Gods in half." It was a brief storyline blip in the "War of the Gods" storyline, and it has never made sense since nor had repercussions in any other storyline in DC Comics.