Read this excerpt from "Those Changing Olympians!" The worship of these deities differed as well. For example, in Greece, Artemis was honored as
the goddess of the hunt. In Ephesus in present-day western Turkey, however, she was revered
as a fertility goddess. At Dodona in northwest Greece, Zeus, the king of gods, was worshipped
as a god of prophecy. In addition, some Greeks looked to him as a god of morality and as the
divine ancestor of the famed Alexander the Great, who proudly depicted the god on his coins.
Similarly, the Roman ruler Julius Caesar boasted lineage from the goddess Venus (Greek
Aphrodite) on his coinage. His coins celebrated her not as the flirtatious goddess of love, but as
a nurturing mother.
Based on the excerpt, what inference can best be made about the worship of Olympic deities?
A.
People worshipped Olympians in different ways based on what they thought was
important.
B.
The Olympic deities were worshipped as great rulers in different lands.
People worshipped Olympic deities for support through difficult times.
D
The Olympic deities had much in common with the people who worshipped them.