Major Deities. The Greek pantheon consisted of various gods, heroes, spirits, and cult objects, some of which were worshiped throughout Greece and some of which were purely local. Often multiple deities were worshiped under the name of a single god, or one god would appear under multiple names in different cults. Because of the fluidity of these divinities, often one deity had several unrelated functions or characteristics. The local underground spirits, Theban Amphiaraus and Boeotian Trophonius, for example, were sometimes worshiped as Zeus Amphiaraus and Zeus Trophonius. Were these one, two, three or four gods? At times, it was almost impossible to know which god was which, but, for the Greeks, that was not as important as keeping the gods happy, which was done not by orthodoxy (having the correct beliefs) but by ritual (doing the right things). In fact, on the...