Why does the chorus pray to three different gods?

Answer 1

You're probably referring to a Greek play where the chorus (group of citizens, male or female) is commenting on the action. If you were an ancient Greek who believed in many gods, and you or your community was in big doo-doo, as often happens in those plays, you would cover as many bases as you could. Each god or goddess has a specialty, so if your problem is complex you're going to contact every divinity who might be concerned in the issue. The play where you saw this practiced may be dealing with a 3-god level problem, but it may turn out to be a higher number if you check all the other choruses sung by the chorus during the play. Usually you can figure out what the god or goddess' specialty is by reading what the humans are praying for the divine being to do. But remember that one divinity can have quite a few specialties (after all, they're gods), so in a different play that god may be prayed to for something quite different.