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    It is not the case that Depicting Olympian gods as active agents presupposes a theological worldview that 18th-century audiences did not genuinely hold as possible.

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    • 1.18th-century audiences routinely engaged with classical mythology in art and literature as imaginative frameworks without requiring literal theological belief.
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    • 2.Suspension of disbelief in fictional narratives is independent of one's actual worldview; audiences need not believe to appreciate dramatic agency.
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    • 3.Many 18th-century thinkers treated pagan gods as philosophical allegories or symbolic representations, allowing genuine imaginative engagement with their actions.
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    • 1.18th-century audiences were educated in Christian monotheism, making literal belief in pagan gods philosophically incompatible with their worldview.
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    • 2.Depicting gods as active agents requires treating them as real causal forces, which conflicts with Enlightenment skepticism about supernatural intervention.
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    • 3.Contemporary theological criticism of pagan mythology shows audiences viewed such depictions as aesthetic convention rather than genuine possibility.
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