So if I were on my knees and praying to Zeus or Apollo.....am I worshipping them or just venerating them?
Worship requires sacrifice, it is possible you could be adoring a false god by praying but in order to actually worship one you'd need a sacrifice of some type.
Why would you either worship or venerate a God from Greek Mythology. The Saints are venerated as they have always been in the Church. It is not Adoration which is for God. Veneration is honoring those saints who have given heroic witness to the Faith, many of them, particularly in the early Church were Martyred. The earliest example can be found around 150 AD when Saint Polycarp was martyred and those believers who were under his care [He was Bishop of Smyrna] marked the cite of his martyrdom and they gathered to pray and remember Polycarp’s heroic witness to the Faith and willingness to not reject CHrist even as the Roman authorities were burning him. Polycarp was a pupil of Saint John the Apostle. Those early Christians venerated Saint Polycarp given he was a Saint and Martyr. They did not worship him. You choose to try to fit your protestant notions on Catholic and Orthodox as well, understanding of the COmmunion of saints. Rather than keep spouting your nonsens, maybe you should read exactly what the Communion of saints entails and what veneration and honoring saints means.