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You sure that stuff is all mythology???

Act 19:35 And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

Many people in that day apparently thought these things were real...

Many people in that day apparently thought these things were real...

Yep, the Greek Gods often lived among the people. You might want to read Helios creation, very similar to Genesis but older.

(Many people in that day apparently thought these things were real)

Yes they did. The Greeks had a number of mythological gods, goddesses, and divine occurrences that explained everything from creation, seasons, afterlife, spiders, personality traits and even things like an echo. Many of these beliefs were adopted by the Romans during the rise of the Roman empire. The Romans had a habit of taking on aspects of those they conquered. They would then customize it and integrate it into the Roman way of life. The gods the Greeks knew as Zues, Herra, Aphrodite, and Poseidon, became Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Neptune. Diana was a Roman adaptation of Artemis. At some point the Romans had around thirty thousand different gods and spirits they prayed to. I believe one was even for doorsteps? It took awhile, but the Roman empire eventually adopted Christianity as the state religion. Most things I've read say that Constantine did this. But, I've also read that while Constantine, who claimed to be a Christian, was the first to do that as an emperor, Theodosius was the one that made it Rome's official religion. Anyhow, the Roman empire, and the spread of Christianity are intertwined.