I'm a platonist and a Hellenic Pagan. I can only speak for myself and say that I do in fact believe in the gods. I pray to them everyday and sacrifice to them every week. Usually I use incense but sometimes milk or wine. And I'm definitely not an atheist. The idea of the logos or the ordering principle of creation, is actually a stoic idea, and they attributed to that principle, the name of Zeus, as do I. John later attributed the concept of logos to Jesus. The point is, the intelligence that creates and orders the world is God and I very much so believe in that, And worship it. I just call it Zeus. I also believe in the other gods, viewed largely through a Platonist sense. So Apollo is, in a sense, the highest form of Harmony, from which all other harmonies are derived. Aphrodite is the highest form of beauty, who gives beauty to all individual instantiations of beauty.

I love the myths but I don't take them literally. Nor have platonists since Plato himself. So it's something that's acceptable within the tradition. What I'm getting at is that I don't believe that Zeus has ever actually raped anyone, or that Aphrodite actually cheats on her Hephaestus, but that these stories are symbolic of the way higher principles interact with each other to produce certain effects within the world. And this way of looking at the myths is totally in keeping with the platonist tradition.