[mherdeg]

I completely misread this as

> Greeks love naturalistic explanations of mythological ideas, however far fetched.

And wonder whether this is also broadly, historically true?

[goto11]

The Greek philosopher Euhemerus believed that Gods has originated as humans who was worshiped after their death. So the naturalistic explanations existed, although I don't know how widely accepted they were.

[jrumbut]

There seems to have been Greeks like Thucydides who did like that and Greeks like Herodotus who enjoyed the opposite (supernatural explanations of the natural), I wouldn't know enough to make a general claim.