How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?

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By about 450 B.C., Herodotus and other writers were describing how women of Scythia fought alongside men on horseback, like the Amazons of myth. Ancient Greek and Roman historians reported that ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

THE UNIVERSE, THE GODS, AND MEN: Ancient Greek Myths Gijs van Hensbergen, , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. . HarperCollins, $24 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019775-9 ...