# Newly built temple for the worship of the Olympian Gods in Greece

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**Created:** [April 28, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-built-temple-for-the-worship-of-the-olympian-gods-in-greece/1017594 "2025-04-28T09:52:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-built-temple-for-the-worship-of-the-olympian-gods-in-greece/1017594/21 "2025-04-29T04:59:59Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> They certainly didn’t “timeshare” their temples.

[Well…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)#Worship_of_Apollo_and_Dionysus)

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-built-temple-for-the-worship-of-the-olympian-gods-in-greece/1017594/22 "2025-04-29T13:51:51Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I’ve experienced this visiting Salem, Massachusetts. The local guides have to walk a fine line between _“These women were totally innocent because there’s no such thing as witches”_ and _“I’d like to welcome all of the practicing witches who are visiting us today.”_

You have to realize that

a.) they were talking about malefic , evil-doing witches, not nature-worshipping pagans (although the authorities back then probably wouldn’t have drawn the distinction)

b.) There really _were_ people practicing what we would call black magic back then. See Chadwick Hansen’s book **Witchcraft in Salem** , which presents the evidence. Other, more recent books cover this, too. There’s little doubt that people there and then tried to use magical means to influence the world, for good or evil, and despite the dictates of their Church.

c.) Wicca and the like are really pretty different from anything being practiced back then.

d.) Some of the authorities didn’t really believe that traditional, devil-pact witchcraft existed as anything more than a delusion, but they’d still want to hang you for even _trying_ to hurt others, just on principle.

Salem, Massachusetts is pretty much _crawling_ with Modern Pagans, so I can understand the desire to be witch-friendly, but it’s still way different from what they hanged people for.

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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-built-temple-for-the-worship-of-the-olympian-gods-in-greece/1017594/23 "2025-04-29T18:01:54Z")

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> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> They just got the units wrong

Which is bad as the Olympian gods are very particular about it that kind of thing…

> **[Doubling the cube](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling_the_cube)**
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> Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient\[a\]: 9  geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube, the problem requires the construction of the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first. As with the related problems of squaring the circle and trisecting the angle, doubling the cube is now known to be impossible to construct by using only a compass and straightedge, but even in ancient times solutions were known that employed other methods.
> According to Eu...

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