Idolatry in Ancient Greece

In any religion -Judaism, Islam or Christianity- art manifested itself naturally, people wanted to show that their religion is beautiful by making the places of worship (churches, temples...) look better and pleasing to the eye, naturally for Islam art manifest itself in the mosques decoration and architecture -the Quran passages on the high walls written in Arabic- and it's forbidden to make any visible representation of the deity. Christianity however, allows such representations as it's probably the better educated form for individuals to feel close spiritually to those representations of Jesus Christ, Marry the virgin... No doubt that among common people those who tend to worship the objects and forget the deity that is represented by that object.

It is instructive to turn to a system to which idolatry –the worship of images- was an essential part of orthodox religious observance and this system indeed worked for the people in ancient Greek, for their power was to embody their ideals in artistic forms. The association of acts of worship and some of special objects or places were merely developing in that period of time, and in such a stage of religious belief or imagination it is clearly of high importance that the image of the deity should be pleasing to that deity and attract people for the communication with him

It was impossible for any Greek to think of the gods in other than human form "God created man in his own image" Hebrew statement.

In the Hellenistic age the Greeks possessed the exceptionally high degree the vivid anthropomorphic imagination necessary for the expression of their conception of the gods in their art, so there was no personal character in true Greek art and no individuality which was the condition of beauty