Because if they didn't, they'd fall down! Okay, okay, I couldn't resist!
I would think the they built them to celebrate Nature--the temples would be man-made imitations of the gods' majestic realm--the columns the trees, the stones the mountains, the fluid designs of streams, the spacial freedom of air--artistic creations of living spirit, spiritual creations of artistic life. Temples posed the awe, echoed the spirit, drew the man, and formed the community in the communal Greek spirit of pietas. The Greeks built Temples to elevate the ethereal with the visual, to mark mythic labour with details of structural composition, to echo the harmony of universal balance, and with measured details, to embrace the beauty and order of the universe-- with a suite sweet enough for a god.
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