Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86191-20161002203416/@comment-6369172-20161011122227

"there was a story that revealed that when the Third world died the energy wave hit Earth and "created" the various gods."

There was, and it's WAY more relevant to figuring out the DCU gods than actual classical references.

The first problem Thor 2000 described was "but by the start of the Roman Empire, Greece was already part of the Roman Empire so splitting themselves to be worshipped by a separate part of the Empire doesn't really make sense. " That's right, it doesn't, and it's not what happened in real history either. So inventing fake history, to account for parallel pantheons of Graeco-Roman gods, solves a problem that isn't the problem. That's the approach Per Degaton would take, and as we all know, he's mad. Don't be like P.D.

The other problem with this approach ["in the DC Universe that Greece was never part of the Roman Empire and both regions remained separate until they were separately conquered by the Turks in the 16th Century."] is this: 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. 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. Why? Because godly realms aren't bound by or based on earthly borders, is why.