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The Greek relationship to their gods, from what little I've been able to pick up, is at least a lot more complicated than a simple pantheon system. It's at least worth noting that several Greek philosophers postulated a single God (Plato and Aristotle in the classical age; Plotinus later), reasoning that if the gods were supposed to be, well, gods, they couldn't be like the gods of the Greeks. There was also a brief episode in Egyptian history when the pharaoh (Akhenaton, IIRC) was a monotheist. So in any case, it's a bit more complicated than simply "there have been historically very vew monotheistic religions".
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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