When Did Maxie Zeus Change Fetishes?

[D-Mono]

I was just reading up on some of the Gotham Adventures comics (#34, in particular), and noticed that Maxie Zeus is described as wanting to rebuild Rome. Also, WF's bio of the character says that he bases his persona on the Roman God Zeus. When he appeared in B:TAS, the episode was called "Fire from Olympus", and he had Greek henchmen, and took a Greek victim. Now, I know a fair bit about both Ancient Roman and Greek myths, and I thought it was common knowledge that Zeus, and Olympus, come from Ancient Greece, not Rome. So, um, what happened? And how? :)
D-Mono.

[The Dark Knight]

Roman mythology is very similar to Greek mythology, with most gods having a counterpart in the other religion. The Roman counterpart of Zeus is Jupiter, and is often seen as the same god. However, Mt. Olympus is strictly Greek, and so it seems that the people writing these comics obviously don’t know what they’re talking about. It seems they just assumed that there were no differences between the two mythologies and thought they could switch the two easily, however, Zeus and Mt. Olympus are Greek.

[Karkull]

Maxie Zeus apparently knows about both mythos, and he switches back and forth with some regularity. In Fire From Olympus he refers to Batman as Hades (Greek; the Roman equivalent is Pluto) but asks him if Lord Vulcan is causing him trouble again (Roman; the Greek equivalent is Hephaestus). Then, later, he refers to Poison Ivy as Demeter (Greek; the Roman equivalent is Ceres), to Two-Face as Janus (a Roman god with no Greek equivalent), and to the Joker as Hermes (Greek; the Roman equivalent is Mercury).

The Romans basically imported the Greek gods and reimagined them for their own purposes (most myths say that Rome was founded by refugees from Troy [who worshipped the Greek gods]).

[Poison Carley]

Did any of you read that "God's of Gotham" crap? It was a Wonder Woman story. I know! I know! That say's it all. :(

[D-Mono]

Now y'all mention it, I do remember all that stuff from "Fire from Olympus". It's either a case of bad writing, or it was intended. I would really nitpick if the self-styled demigod sutured elements from various other ancient mythologies into his gimmick, but it's just that Roman and Greek myths are so similar, with the Romans 'borrowing' from the Greeks. BTW, Karull - do you post at He-Man.Org, at all? :)
Hordak.

[Maxie Zeus]

O/T: My namesake comes up so little in discussion that I always jump a little when I see a title like this: "When Did Maxie Zeus Change Fetishes?" What? Fetishes? Me?

On-topic: Take your pick of explanations:
1. Ignorant writers: They didn't know better.
2. Lazy writers: They figured us fanboys didn't know better.
3. Clueless writers: They figured us fanboys knew better but wouldn't care.
4. Half-clever writers: They figured the mythologies were interchangable anyway.
5. Too-clever-by-half writers: They figured that Maxie is mad and would confuse the mythologies anyway.
6. Ultra-clever writers: They figured us fanboys would catch on and launch an huge discussion about it and took bets on how long it would take, and right now someone is collecting the office pool.
7. Elseworlds writers: All the Maxie Zeus comics are actually written in an alternate universe where the mythology is strictly accurate, and have accidentally made their way into our universe.

:bosko:

[Karkull]

I always figured that it was intended. He would be pompous enough to think that two separate civilizations worshiped him!

And don't get me started on the mythologies that were pre-Greek and similar to Greek/Roman!

(I don't post at He-man.org, but I do stop by sometimes, :)).

[Cassandra]

Poison Carley- You know what was pathetic about that piece of crap WW story? How everyone was raving about how great it was compared to her usual writing. So I picked it up and thought-this is WW's best?! Could someone kill this title immediately please?

now back to your regularly scheduled thread-