This is the deity who led Greek heroes to their deaths, who Roman generals honoured with sacrifice before battle, who was the incarnation of the ecstasy and the agony of lust and love. Bettany Hughes, Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love, BBC 2017
She is married to Hephaestus the lame blacksmith god, but is in an adulterous affair with the god of war Ares. She has mortal lovers too. ibid.
Real Greek women were second-class citizens. ibid.
I’m investigating the enduring relationship between warfare and worship by following the ancient god of war – Mars. Bettany Hughes: Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War, BBC 2019
For the Romans he was a vital force in their drive to win and exploit an empire. ibid.
The Greek god of war was called Ares and he has prehistoric roots. ibid.
This was once the haunt of Bacchus, the god of Ecstasy and Wine. The god who blurred the boundaries between human and divine, between women and men, between the wild and the tamed. Bettany Hughes, Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy, BBC 2021
In B.C. 186 the senate of the Roman Republic had put its foot down, passing a decree punishing the worship of Bacchus throughout Roman lands. ibid.
Descriptions of Bacchus in ancient myths and Jesus in the New Testament have striking similarities. We are told both performed miracles, like changing water in wine. Both had immortal fathers and human mothers. And Bacchus was said to have been killed by Titans before being born again. ibid.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannise will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious or otherwise, to put shackles on sleeping men. Voltaire
It was the cradle of western civilisation and a culture that credited everything to the gods. The Greek gods were said to possess incredible technology. The gods imparted advanced knowledge and they even coupled with humans. Ancient Aliens s19e16: The Gods of Greece
One day these gods will return. Giorgio A Tsoukalos, editor Legendary Times magazine
Our ancestors misinterpreted extraterrestrials as gods because that was the only way they could explain away what they had witnessed. Giorgio A Tsoukalos
The whole pantheon of gods that we have in ancient Greece consists of nothing else but flesh and blood extraterrestrials who were misinterpreted as being these divine creatures by our ancestors. Giorgio Tsoukalos
I do see a similarity across the globe from megalithic sites where these past cultures explain that they were built by the gods. But were they really gods or extraterrestrials? Jason Martell, author Knowledge Apocalypse
We worship the god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this: that ye may repeat it to the brethren of the 30th, 31st and 32nd degrees – the Masonic religion should be the Luciferian doctrine. Lucifer is God. The true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer. Albert Pike’s Instructions to twenty-three Scottish Rites Supreme Councils throughout the world 14th July 1889
In a way, it’s nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might think that’s just really bad luck; when you’re a half-blood, you understand that some divine force is really trying to mess up your day. Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
What gods? You prophets and priests made the gods that you may prey upon the fears of men. The Ten Commandments 1956 starring Yul Brynner & Anne Baxter & Charlton Heston & Edward G Robinson & Yvonne De Carlo & Debra Paget & John Derek & Sir Cedric Hardwicke & Vincent Price et al, producer & director Cecil B DeMille, Pharaoh
Who made the gods? The Ten Commandments mini-series starring Dougray Scott & Naveen Andrews & Omar Sharif & Linus Roache & Paul Rhys, director Robert Dornhelm, music Randy Edelman, Inchoate Moses, ABC 2006
Far better that there should be as many gods as there are men. If only to keep us priests employed. ibid. old man
The Book of Deuteronomy banned the worship of Asherah and other pagan gods. Empires Special: Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites: By the Rivers of Babylon, PBS 2003
After Josiah’s death the kings that followed him re-established the worship of Asharah and other gods. ibid.
Even supposing some Greeks are so foolish as to think that the gods dwell in the statues, even that would be a much purer concept (of religion) than to admit that the Divine Power should descend into the womb of the Virgin Mary, that it became an embryo, and after birth was wrapped in rags, soiled with blood and bile, and even worse. Porphyry of Tyre, Against the Christians
And the Catholic Church just took this position that we have to be the one faith. We can’t have anybody else believing in these other gods, or polytheism. Devon Jackson, interview Illuminating Angels & Demons, author ‘Conspiranoia: The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories’
Do not mock the gods. Troy 2004 starring Brad Pitt & Eric Bana & Orlando Bloom & Rose Byrne & Peter O’Toole & Diane Kruger & Brian Cox & Sean Bean & Julie Christie & Saffron Burrows et al, director Wolfgang Petersen, Priam to Hector
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal. ibid. Achilles to Briseis
You will enjoy being a god, Elizabeth. Star Trek s1e3: Where No Man Has Gone Before [second pilot episode, broadcast third in sequence; alternative pilot version Where No Fan Has Gone Before] Mitchell to Dehner
Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate. Star Trek s2e2: Who Mourns For Adonais? Kirk
Behold a god who bleeds! Star Trek s3e3: The Paradise Syndrome, tribal bloke
No-one has ever offered to turn me into a god before. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e10: Hide & Q, Riker to Picard
They’re treating us like gods. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e17: When the Bough Breaks, Wesley to mother
The Mintarkans are beginning to believe in a god; the one they have chosen is you. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e4: Who Watches the Watchers? Riker to Picard
They call them gods. The Founders are like gods to the Jem’Hadar. But our gods never talk to us. And they don’t wait for us after death. They only want us to fight for them. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e4: Hippocratic Oath, Jem'Hadar boss
Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e11: Homefront, Worf
Founder, we are honoured by your decision to remain with us. Whatever you say, nevertheless having a god walk amongst us is most gratifying. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e26: A Call to Arms ***** Weyoun
Bashir: We’re not gods.
Jack: Maybe not, but we’re the next best thing. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e9: Statistical Probabilities
We should have been fighting their gods. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e26: Tears of the Prophets ***** Gul Dukat to Weyoun & Damar
All this talk of gods strikes me as nothing more than superstitious nonsense. ibid. Weyoun to Damar
The Bajoran people have been cut off from their gods. ibid. Gul Dukat to Weyoun & Damar
I would never harm a god. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e6: Treachery, Faith and the Great River, Weyoun
Why be a god if there’s no-one to worship you? ibid. Weyoun to Odo