The Homeric Pantheon and the Iliad

Paganism, it seems, which really ought to be called Hellenism, was perpetually on the decline. The Olympian pantheon is little more than an alternately vicious and hilarious prelude to Christianity. From a historical perspective, obviously Christianity did take over the Mediterranean and continued to grow. But if we read the Homeric epics and later works of Greek literature, we make a couple different kinds of mistakes.