The religious beliefs of Classical Greece can be interpreted in many different ways.
Nobody can be sure how or why people believe a certain story about their gods.
And different people probably have different reasons for believing a story. Or the same person may believe a story for several different reasons. And people may tell one story in one situation, and a different story in a different situation, whatever seems to fit. Here we will tell some of the stories that people told in Classical Greece, and we will give some of the reasons why they might have told these stories and not other ones. To help you relate one story to another, here are some of the ways that the Greeks thought their gods were related.