They're items of public domain that I adapted and derived from to create my own version of the greek gods. I could claim that I have a substantial, copyrightable improvement on the characters, sufficient to be an intrest in the OGL.
Or, to put it another way, I wouldn't ignore someone's PI declaration just because it's a PD name.
As my lawyer has explained it to me, and as I've had it explained by a number of d20 publishers, though, you still wouldn't have a case unless the other party was infringing on your VERSION of the gods. Whether or not they use your open system with a public domain name wouldn't matter -- they'd actually have to infringe on your closed USE of your new system in the gods' game stats, not the use of the new system to make their own versions of those same gods, period.
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