Pop culture focuses so excessively on myth that people start to think Greek religion is just a couple of great stories about superheroes that inexplicably have temples attached to them. I'm not the best person to set the record straight but I sure am angry enough to tryhttps://twitter.com/askhistorians/status/1403744904920985603 …
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I made an attempt at this worthy goal with Practical Polytheism:https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polytheism-part-i-knowledge/ …
I get a lot of positive feedback from that series from those who read it, though it is less well read than a lot of the things I've written, so perhaps not my most engaging? 
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I can’t comment on popularity, but amputation of religion from the past is super common in popular representations of the past. Even groups like the SCA do it. So I will point out important is better then popular, and I think those notes were important.
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Even a lot of historical fantasy lacks a veneer of realism when every cleric is a cynic. See Game of Thrones. Real fanatics would be much scarier. At least LotR is smart enough to say little and let it be faded background
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I thought it was both very well written and very insightful (or at least it made a lot of sense of all the things I know about Graeco-Roman polytheism). lack of clicks maybe partly because Westerners don’t like to think hard about religion, and partly the lack of pop culture stuf
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Unfortunately most pop-culture stuff doesn’t engage well with religion, as you keep on showing. Pity that HBO’s Rome was made a while back, it did try hard here. “Roman morality & religion in ‘Rome’” would have been a fun to read and a good platform to engage on this
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